[PATCH v4 5/5] x86/gsseg: use the LKGS instruction if available for load_gs_index()

From: Xin Li
Date: Wed Oct 19 2022 - 07:20:02 EST


From: "H. Peter Anvin (Intel)" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

The LKGS instruction atomically loads a segment descriptor into the
%gs descriptor registers, *except* that %gs.base is unchanged, and the
base is instead loaded into MSR_IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE, which is exactly
what we want this function to do.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes since v3:
* We want less ASM not more, thus keep local_irq_save/restore() inside
native_load_gs_index() (Thomas Gleixner).
* For paravirt enabled kernels, initialize pv_ops.cpu.load_gs_index to
native_lkgs (Thomas Gleixner).

Changes since V2:
* Mark DI as input and output (+D) as in V1, since the exception handler
modifies it (Brian Gerst).

Changes since V1:
* Use EX_TYPE_ZERO_REG instead of fixup code in the obsolete .fixup code
section (Peter Zijlstra).
* Add a comment that states the LKGS_DI macro will be repalced with "lkgs %di"
once the binutils support the LKGS instruction (Peter Zijlstra).
---
arch/x86/include/asm/gsseg.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/gsseg.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/gsseg.h
index d15577c39e8d..ab6a595cea70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/gsseg.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/gsseg.h
@@ -14,17 +14,42 @@

extern asmlinkage void asm_load_gs_index(u16 selector);

+/* Replace with "lkgs %di" once binutils support LKGS instruction */
+#define LKGS_DI _ASM_BYTES(0xf2,0x0f,0x00,0xf7)
+
+static inline void native_lkgs(unsigned int selector)
+{
+ u16 sel = selector;
+ asm_inline volatile("1: " LKGS_DI
+ _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG(1b, 1b, EX_TYPE_ZERO_REG, %k[sel])
+ : [sel] "+D" (sel));
+}
+
static inline void native_load_gs_index(unsigned int selector)
{
- unsigned long flags;
+ if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LKGS)) {
+ native_lkgs(selector);
+ } else {
+ unsigned long flags;

- local_irq_save(flags);
- asm_load_gs_index(selector);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ asm_load_gs_index(selector);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ }
}

#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */

+static inline void __init lkgs_init(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LKGS))
+ pv_ops.cpu.load_gs_index = native_lkgs;
+#endif
+#endif
+}
+
#ifndef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_XXL

static inline void load_gs_index(unsigned int selector)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 3e508f239098..d6eb4f60b47d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1939,6 +1939,7 @@ void __init identify_boot_cpu(void)
setup_cr_pinning();

tsx_init();
+ lkgs_init();
}

void identify_secondary_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
--
2.34.1