From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>,
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] arm64: kpti: Update arm64_use_ng_mappings before pagetable mapping
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:14:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210126141430.GB29956@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210113014047.14371-3-justin.he@arm.com>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 09:40:47AM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> There is a 10s stall in idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings when kernel boots
> on a Ampere EMAG server.
>
> Commit f992b4dfd58b ("arm64: kpti: Add ->enable callback to remap
> swapper using nG mappings") updates the nG bit runtime if kpti is required.
> But things get worse if rodata=full in map_mem(). NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS |
> NO_CONT_MAPPINGS is required when creating pagetable mapping. Hence all
> ptes are fully mapped in this case. On a Ampere EMAG server with 256G
> memory(pagesize=4k), it causes the 10s stall.
>
> After previous commit moving init_cpu_features(), we can use
> cpu_have_const_cap earlier than before. Hence we can avoid this stall
> by updating arm64_use_ng_mappings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> index e078ab068f3b..51098ceb7159 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -306,6 +306,10 @@ void __init __no_sanitize_address setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> /* Init the cpu feature codes for boot cpu */
> cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu();
>
> + /* ARM64_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 cap can be updated in cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu() */
> + if (!arm64_use_ng_mappings)
> + arm64_use_ng_mappings = cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0);
Are you sure it's safe to run the cpu feature initialisation code this
early? For example, we haven't even parsed the command-line yet, so I think
a fair amount of stuff will break.
Of course, you could also just pass "mitigations=off" if you want your
performance back.
Will
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-13 1:40 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Avoid booting stall caused by Jia He
2021-01-13 1:40 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] arm64/cpuinfo: Move init_cpu_features() ahead of setup.c::early_fixmap_init() Jia He
2021-01-26 13:57 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-26 14:11 ` Mark Rutland
2021-01-13 1:40 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] arm64: kpti: Update arm64_use_ng_mappings before pagetable mapping Jia He
2021-01-26 14:14 ` Will Deacon [this message]
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