Re: [PATCH v7 11/25] arm64: irqflags: Use ICC_PMR_EL1 for interrupt masking

[Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>]

On 13/12/2018 12:02, Julien Thierry wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/12/2018 11:35, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 09:54, Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/12/2018 18:10, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 18:59, Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/12/2018 17:27, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 17:48, Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Instead disabling interrupts by setting the PSR.I bit, use a priority
>>>>>>> higher than the one used for interrupts to mask them via PMR.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When using PMR to disable interrupts, the value of PMR will be used
>>>>>>> instead of PSR.[DAIF] for the irqflags.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
>>>>>>> Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
>>>>>>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>>>>>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>>>>>>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>>>>>>> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h      |   5 +-
>>>>>>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>>>>>  2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
>>>>>>> index 7ed3208..a9d3ebc 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
>>>>>>> @@ -42,7 +42,10 @@
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  efi_status_t __efi_rt_asm_wrapper(void *, const char *, ...);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -#define ARCH_EFI_IRQ_FLAGS_MASK (PSR_D_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT)
>>>>>>> +#define ARCH_EFI_IRQ_FLAGS_MASK                                                \
>>>>>>> +       (system_uses_irq_prio_masking() ?                               \
>>>>>>> +               GIC_PRIO_IRQON :                                        \
>>>>>>> +               (PSR_D_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This mask is used to determine whether we return from a firmware call
>>>>>> with a different value for the I flag than we entered it with. So
>>>>>> instead of changing the mask, we should change the way we record DAIF,
>>>>>> given that the firmware is still going to poke the I bit if it
>>>>>> misbehaves, regardless of whether the OS happens to use priorities for
>>>>>> interrupt masking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for pointing that out, so this change makes little sense...
>>>>>
>>>>> The annoying part is that the flag checking takes place in the arch
>>>>> agnostic code.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would introducing some overriddable efi_get_flags() or efi_save_flags()
>>>>> that default to local_save_flags() seem like an acceptable solution?
>>>>>
>>>>> This way I could override it for arm64 and still return the DAIF bits.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't follow the reasoning below about irqflags exactly, but is
>>>> there any way we could simply but both PMR and DAIF in flags? We could
>>>> even update the mask here to ensure that the firmware doesn't corrupt
>>>> the PMR.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So, that was the case in my previous versions of the series, and as you
>>> said, that covered checking both DAIF bits and PMR on return from EFI
>>> services. But Catalin suggested that irqflags could just use PMR when we
>>> enable the priority masking feature. Catalin's suggestion does simplify
>>> things, except for this part.
>>>
>>> However, it doesn't seem to far-fetched to me that the architecture
>>> could have a more generic way to tell the EFI driver "this is the set of
>>> stuff that I care about and you should return from runtime services with
>>> this stuff in the same state as before" without the "set of stuff" being
>>> limited to irqflags.
>>>
>>> But maybe this would be over-engineering just to deal with my use-case...
>>>
>>
>> No, that makes sense. As you said, you can just create a
>> efi_get_irqflags() helper that defaults to what we are using now, and
>> can be overridden to just return DAIF in our case.
>>
> 
> Good, thanks for the confirmation. I'll do that for the next version of
> the series.
> 

Argh, not as simple as I had expected.

Turns out include/linux/efi.h does not include asm/efi.h (including it
at the beginning of the file breaks the build because asm/efi.h misses
the efi type definitions.

So a thing like:

#ifndef efi_get_irqflags
#define efi_get_irqflags(flags) local_save_flags(flags)
#endif

in include/linux/efi.h cannot be overridden.

Either I would need to introduce the definitions arm, arm64 and x86 (I
don't think there are other arch supporting EFI right now) or I'll need
to come up with another solution.

-- 
Julien Thierry