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From: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
	Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	"Chang S . Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [v3 12/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add documentation for FSGSBASE
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:42:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181023184234.14025-13-chang.seok.bae@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181023184234.14025-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com>

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

v2: Minor updates to documentation requested in review.
v3: Update for new gcc and various improvements.

[ chang: Fix some typo. Fix the example code. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
---
 Documentation/x86/fsgs.txt | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/fsgs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/fsgs.txt b/Documentation/x86/fsgs.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7a973a5c1767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/x86/fsgs.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+
+Using FS and GS prefixes on 64bit x86 linux
+
+The x86 architecture supports segment prefixes per instruction to add an
+offset to an address.  On 64bit x86, these are mostly nops, except for FS
+and GS.
+
+This offers an efficient way to reference a global pointer.
+
+The compiler has to generate special code to use these base registers,
+or they can be accessed with inline assembler.
+
+	mov %gs:offset,%reg
+	mov %fs:offset,%reg
+
+On 64bit code, FS is used to address the thread local segment (TLS), declared using
+__thread.  The compiler then automatically generates the correct prefixes and
+relocations to access these values.
+
+FS is normally managed by the runtime code or the threading library
+Overwriting it can break a lot of things (including syscalls and gdb),
+but it can make sense to save/restore it for threading purposes.
+
+GS is freely available, but may need special (compiler or inline assembler)
+code to use.
+
+Traditionally 64bit FS and GS could be set by the arch_prctl system call
+
+	arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_GS, value)
+	arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, value)
+
+[There was also an older method using modify_ldt(), inherited from 32bit,
+but this is not discussed here.]
+
+However using a syscall is problematic for user space threading libraries
+that want to context switch in user space. The whole point of them
+is avoiding the overhead of a syscall. It's also cleaner for compilers
+wanting to use the extra register to use instructions to write
+it, or read it directly to compute addresses and offsets.
+
+Newer Intel CPUs (Ivy Bridge and later) added new instructions to directly
+access these registers quickly from user context
+
+	RDFSBASE %reg	read the FS base	(or _readfsbase_u64)
+	RDGSBASE %reg	read the GS base	(or _readgsbase_u64)
+
+	WRFSBASE %reg	write the FS base	(or _writefsbase_u64)
+	WRGSBASE %reg	write the GS base	(or _writegsbase_u64)
+
+If you use the intrinsics include <immintrin.h> and set the -mfsgsbase option.
+
+The instructions are supported by the CPU when the "fsgsbase" string is shown in
+/proc/cpuinfo (or directly retrieved through the CPUID instruction,
+7:0 (ebx), word 9, bit 0)
+
+The instructions are only available to 64bit binaries.
+
+In addition the kernel needs to explicitly enable these instructions, as it
+may otherwise not correctly context switch the state. Newer Linux
+kernels enable this. When the kernel did not enable the instruction
+they will fault with an #UD exception.
+
+An FSGSBASE enabled kernel can be detected by checking the AT_HWCAP2
+bitmask in the aux vector. When the HWCAP2_FSGSBASE bit is set the
+kernel supports FSGSBASE.
+
+	#include <sys/auxv.h>
+	#include <elf.h>
+
+	/* Will be eventually in asm/hwcap.h */
+	#define HWCAP2_FSGSBASE        (1 << 1)
+
+        unsigned val = getauxval(AT_HWCAP2);
+        if (val & HWCAP2_FSGSBASE) {
+                asm("wrgsbase %0" :: "r" (ptr));
+        }
+
+No extra CPUID check needed as the kernel will not set this bit if the CPU
+does not support it.
+
+gcc 6 will have special support to directly access data relative
+to fs/gs using the __seg_fs and __seg_gs address space pointer
+modifiers.
+
+#ifndef __SEG_GS
+#error "Need gcc 6 or later"
+#endif
+
+struct gsdata {
+	int a;
+	int b;
+} gsdata = { 1, 2 };
+
+int __seg_gs *valp = 0;		/* offset relative to GS */
+
+	/* Check if kernel supports FSGSBASE as above */
+
+	/* Set up new GS */
+	asm("wrgsbase %0" :: "r" (&gsdata));
+
+	/* Now the global pointer can be used normally */
+	printf("gsdata.a = %d\n", *valp);
+
+Andi Kleen
-- 
2.19.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-23 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-23 18:42 [v3 00/12] x86: Enable FSGSBASE instructions Chang S. Bae
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 01/12] taint: Introduce a new taint flag (insecure) Chang S. Bae
2018-10-24 18:50   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 02/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2018-10-24 18:51   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 03/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics/macros for FSGSBASE instructions Chang S. Bae
2018-10-24 18:53   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-24 19:21     ` Andi Kleen
2018-10-25 23:14       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-25 23:31         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-10-26  0:09           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 04/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in the helper functions Chang S. Bae
2018-10-24 19:16   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-24 19:41     ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2018-10-25  6:09       ` Juergen Gross
2018-10-25 23:08         ` Andrew Cooper
2018-10-25 23:11           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-25 23:14             ` Andrew Cooper
2018-10-25  7:32     ` Bae, Chang Seok
2018-10-25 23:00       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-25 23:03         ` Bae, Chang Seok
2018-10-25 23:16     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 05/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Preserve FS/GS state in __switch_to() if FSGSBASE is on Chang S. Bae
2018-10-24 19:21   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-24 19:36     ` Bae, Chang Seok
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 06/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: When copying a thread, use the FSGSBASE instructions if available Chang S. Bae
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 07/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Introduce the new FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro Chang S. Bae
2018-10-26  0:25   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-26  0:59     ` Nadav Amit
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 08/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Use the per-CPU base as GSBASE at the paranoid_entry Chang S. Bae
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 09/12] selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test WRGSBASE Chang S. Bae
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 10/12] x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE by default and add a chicken bit Chang S. Bae
2018-10-23 18:42 ` [v3 11/12] x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2 Chang S. Bae
2018-10-23 18:42 ` Chang S. Bae [this message]

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