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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:16:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2452e4bba35cf473d975a90d90533cf580a012f3.1461201316.git.luto@kernel.org> (raw)

RDPID is a new instruction that reads MSR_TSC_AUX quickly.  This
should be considerably faster than reading the GDT.  Add a
cpufeature for it and use it from __vdso_getcpu when available.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---

I don't have a Cannonlake CPU (or whatever CPU I'd need for this).
Could someone who has such a beast give this a try?

Boris, could you double-check me?  You're a lot more familiar with
CPUID stuff and the instruction tables than I am, and I can't fall
back to a real disassembler because the instruction is too new.

Also, it's time for someone to do UMIP.  I'll see if I can convince
someone in KVM land to emulate it to make it easier to test.

Changes from v1:
 - Remove rdpid() from special_instructions.h.  (Was a leftover -- sorry.)

arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h       | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 7bfb6b70c745..beaf2fb601ee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ecx), word 16 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PKU		(16*32+ 3) /* Protection Keys for Userspace */
 #define X86_FEATURE_OSPKE	(16*32+ 4) /* OS Protection Keys Enable */
+#define X86_FEATURE_RDPID	(16*32+ 22) /* RDPID instruction */
 
 /*
  * BUG word(s)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
index e728699db774..3a01996db58f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h
@@ -89,8 +89,13 @@ static inline unsigned int __getcpu(void)
 	 * works on all CPUs.  This is volatile so that it orders
 	 * correctly wrt barrier() and to keep gcc from cleverly
 	 * hoisting it out of the calling function.
+	 *
+	 * If RDPID is available, use it.
 	 */
-	asm volatile ("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
+	alternative_io ("lsl %[p],%[seg]",
+			".byte 0xf3,0x0f,0xc7,0xf8", /* RDPID %eax/rax */
+			X86_FEATURE_RDPID,
+			[p] "=a" (p), [seg] "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
 
 	return p;
 }
-- 
2.5.5

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-21  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21  1:16 Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2016-04-21 12:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-21 15:25   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-21 16:26     ` Borislav Petkov

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