Le 12/01/2019 à 10:55, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
The purpose of this serie is to activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which
moves the thread_info into task_struct.

Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages:
- It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack
overflows.
- Its address is harder to determine if stack addresses are
leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult.

I ran null_syscall and context_switch benchmark selftests and the result is surprising. There is slight degradation in context_switch and a significant one on null_syscall:

Without the serie:

~# chrt -f 98 ./context_switch --no-altivec --no-vector --no-fp
55542
55562
55564
55562
55568
...

~# ./null_syscall
   2546.71 ns     336.17 cycles


With the serie:

~# chrt -f 98 ./context_switch --no-altivec --no-vector --no-fp
55138
55142
55152
55144
55142

~# ./null_syscall
   3479.54 ns     459.30 cycles

So 0,8% less context switches per second and 37% more time for one syscall ?


Any idea ?

Christophe



Changes since v12:
  - Patch 1: Taken comment from Mike (re-introduced the 'panic' in case 
memblock allocation fails in setup_64.c
  - Patch 1: Added alloc_stack() function in setup_32.c to also panic in case 
of allocation failure.

Changes since v11:
  - Rebased on 81775f5563fa ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 
'fixes' into merge")
  - Added a first patch to change memblock allocs to functions returning 
virtual addrs. This removes
    the memset() which were the only remaining stuff in irq_ctx_init() and 
exc_lvl_ctx_init() at the end.
  - dropping irq_ctx_init() and exc_lvl_ctx_init() in patch 5 (powerpc: 
Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK)
  - A few cosmetic changes in commit log and code.

Changes since v10:
  - Rebased on 21622a0d2023 ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 
'fixes' into merge")
   ==> Fixed conflict in setup_32.S

Changes since v9:
  - Rebased on 183cbf93be88 ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 
'fixes' into merge")
   ==> Fixed conflict on xmon

Changes since v8:
  - Rebased on e589b79e40d9 ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 
'fixes' into merge")
   ==> Main impact was conflicts due to commit 9a8dd708d547 ("memblock: rename 
memblock_alloc{_nid,_try_nid} to memblock_phys_alloc*")

Changes since v7:
  - Rebased on fb6c6ce7907d ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 
'fixes' into merge")

Changes since v6:
  - Fixed validate_sp() to exclude NULL sp in 'regain entire stack space' patch 
(early crash with CONFIG_KMEMLEAK)

Changes since v5:
  - Fixed livepatch_sp setup by using end_of_stack() instead of hardcoding
  - Fixed PPC_BPF_LOAD_CPU() macro

Changes since v4:
  - Fixed a build failure on 32bits SMP when include/generated/asm-offsets.h is 
not
  already existing, was due to spaces instead of a tab in the Makefile

Changes since RFC v3: (based on Nick's review)
  - Renamed task_size.h to task_size_user64.h to better relate to what it 
contains.
  - Handling of the isolation of thread_info cpu field inside CONFIG_SMP 
#ifdefs moved to a separate patch.
  - Removed CURRENT_THREAD_INFO macro completely.
  - Added a guard in asm/smp.h to avoid build failure before _TASK_CPU is 
defined.
  - Added a patch at the end to rename 'tp' pointers to 'sp' pointers
  - Renamed 'tp' into 'sp' pointers in preparation patch when relevant
  - Fixed a few commit logs
  - Fixed checkpatch report.

Changes since RFC v2:
  - Removed the modification of names in asm-offsets
  - Created a rule in arch/powerpc/Makefile to append the offset of 
current->cpu in CFLAGS
  - Modified asm/smp.h to use the offset set in CFLAGS
  - Squashed the renaming of THREAD_INFO to TASK_STACK in the preparation patch
  - Moved the modification of current_pt_regs in the patch activating 
CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

Changes since RFC v1:
  - Removed the first patch which was modifying header inclusion order in timer
  - Modified some names in asm-offsets to avoid conflicts when including 
asm-offsets in C files
  - Modified asm/smp.h to avoid having to include linux/sched.h (using 
asm-offsets instead)
  - Moved some changes from the activation patch to the preparation patch.

Christophe Leroy (10):
   powerpc/irq: use memblock functions returning virtual address
   book3s/64: avoid circular header inclusion in mmu-hash.h
   powerpc: Only use task_struct 'cpu' field on SMP
   powerpc: Prepare for moving thread_info into task_struct
   powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
   powerpc: regain entire stack space
   powerpc: 'current_set' is now a table of task_struct pointers
   powerpc/32: Remove CURRENT_THREAD_INFO and rename TI_CPU
   powerpc/64: Remove CURRENT_THREAD_INFO
   powerpc: clean stack pointers naming

  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                           |   1 +
  arch/powerpc/Makefile                          |   7 ++
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h      |   4 +-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/mmu-hash.h  |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h       |   4 +-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/irq.h                 |  18 ++--
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h           |   6 +-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h           |  39 +--------
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h              |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h                 |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h                 |  17 +++-
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_user64.h    |  42 +++++++++
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h         |  19 -----
  arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c              |  10 ++-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S                 |  66 +++++---------
  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S                 |  12 +--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/epapr_hcalls.S             |   5 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S           |  13 +--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S           |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S                  |  14 +--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S                 |   4 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S                 |   8 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S                  |   1 +
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S                 |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h               |  12 +--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S           |  16 ++--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_6xx.S                 |   8 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3e.S              |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_e500.S                |   8 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_power4.S              |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c                      | 114 +++----------------------
  arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c                     |  28 ------
  arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c         |   6 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S                  |  17 ++--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c                  |  40 ++++-----
  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c             |   2 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c                 |  25 +++---
  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c                 |  51 +++--------
  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c                      |  16 ++--
  arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_64_mprofile.S |   6 +-
  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_hmi.c               |   1 +
  arch/powerpc/mm/hash_low_32.S                  |  14 ++-
  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit32.h                   |   5 +-
  arch/powerpc/sysdev/6xx-suspend.S              |   5 +-
  arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c                       |   2 +-
  45 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 431 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_user64.h

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