Because DRn access is 'difficult' with virt; but the DR7 read is cheaper than a cacheline miss on native, add a virt specific fast path to local_db_save(), such that when breakpoints are not in use we avoid touching DRn entirely.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h | 6 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h @@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ static inline void debug_stack_usage_dec static __always_inline void local_db_save(unsigned long *dr7) { + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) && !hw_breakpoint_active()) { + *dr7 = 0; + barrier(); + return; + } + get_debugreg(*dr7, 7); if (*dr7) set_debugreg(0, 7); --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ int arch_install_hw_breakpoint(struct pe unsigned long *dr7; int i; + lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); + for (i = 0; i < HBP_NUM; i++) { struct perf_event **slot = this_cpu_ptr(&bp_per_reg[i]); @@ -115,6 +117,12 @@ int arch_install_hw_breakpoint(struct pe dr7 = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_dr7); *dr7 |= encode_dr7(i, info->len, info->type); + /* + * Ensure we first write cpu_dr7 before we set the DR7 register. + * This ensures an NMI never see cpu_dr7 0 when DR7 is not. + */ + barrier(); + set_debugreg(*dr7, 7); if (info->mask) set_dr_addr_mask(info->mask, i); @@ -134,9 +142,11 @@ int arch_install_hw_breakpoint(struct pe void arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp) { struct arch_hw_breakpoint *info = counter_arch_bp(bp); - unsigned long *dr7; + unsigned long dr7; int i; + lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); + for (i = 0; i < HBP_NUM; i++) { struct perf_event **slot = this_cpu_ptr(&bp_per_reg[i]); @@ -149,12 +159,20 @@ void arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint(struct if (WARN_ONCE(i == HBP_NUM, "Can't find any breakpoint slot")) return; - dr7 = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_dr7); - *dr7 &= ~__encode_dr7(i, info->len, info->type); + dr7 = this_cpu_read(cpu_dr7); + dr7 &= ~__encode_dr7(i, info->len, info->type); - set_debugreg(*dr7, 7); + set_debugreg(dr7, 7); if (info->mask) set_dr_addr_mask(0, i); + + /* + * Ensure the write to cpu_dr7 is after we've set the DR7 register. + * This ensures an NMI never see cpu_dr7 0 when DR7 is not. + */ + barrier(); + + this_cpu_write(cpu_dr7, dr7); } static int arch_bp_generic_len(int x86_len) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -3027,6 +3027,8 @@ static int nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw(s /* * VMExit clears RFLAGS.IF and DR7, even on a consistency check. + * XXX how is this not broken? access to cpu_dr7 ought to be with + * IRQs disabled. */ local_irq_enable(); if (hw_breakpoint_active())