From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: save user rsp in pt_regs->sp on SYSCALL64 fastpath
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:50:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK1hOcMTRhO3hhqD0Ft6qJ-NYn9uZ7tcTKxJB1=nRR-3fkbYEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150310132147.GB26185@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>> Since this patch does add two extra MOVs,
>> I did benchmark these patches. They add exactly one cycle
>> to system call code path on my Sandy Bridge CPU.
>
> Hm, but that's the wrong direction, we should try to make it faster,
> and to clean it up
As you know, goals of "faster" and "cleaner" are often mutually exclusive.
C'est la vie :(
entry.S seem to lean towards "faster" to the extent where it became
a tangled maze of obscure optimizations.
Such as the mysterious, and not at all obvious existence of 8 byte
"safety padding" at the top of the 32-bit kernel stack. Before Andy
stumbled into it, it was not at all obvious that it is even there.
I had to write a test patch to verify it.
There is a long-standing latent bug in the code where this padding
is not accounted for.
> - but making it slower without really good reasons isn't good.
The thinking here is that cleaning up entry.S is a good reason.
We won't do anything which would slow it down by, say, 5%,
but one cycle may be considered acceptable loss.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-10 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-09 18:39 [PATCH 0/4 v2] x86: entry_64.S: steps towards simpler iret frame handling Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: save r11 into pt_regs->flags on SYSCALL64 fastpath Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-09 20:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-16 12:04 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Save R11 into pt_regs-> flags " tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: save user rsp in pt_regs->sp " Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-09 20:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-09 20:32 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-09 20:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-10 12:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-10 13:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-10 13:18 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-10 13:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-10 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-10 13:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-10 13:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-10 14:00 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-10 14:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-10 14:09 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-10 13:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-10 13:50 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2015-03-16 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-16 12:05 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Save user RSP in pt_regs-> sp " tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-10 6:00 ` [PATCH 0/4 v2] x86: entry_64.S: steps towards simpler iret frame handling Ingo Molnar
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