x86/process: Correct and optimize TIF_BLOCKSTEP switch
authorKyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:11:03 +0000 (00:11 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 22 May 2018 14:58:00 +0000 (16:58 +0200)
commit b9894a2f5bd18b1691cb6872c9afe32b148d0132 upstream

The debug control MSR is "highly magical" as the blockstep bit can be
cleared by hardware under not well documented circumstances.

So a task switch relying on the bit set by the previous task (according to
the previous tasks thread flags) can trip over this and not update the flag
for the next task.

To fix this its required to handle DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF when either the previous
or the next or both tasks have the TIF_BLOCKSTEP flag set.

While at it avoid branching within the TIF_BLOCKSTEP case and evaluating
boot_cpu_data twice in kernels without CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR.

x86_64: arch/x86/kernel/process.o
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i386: No change

[ tglx: Made the shift value explicit, use a local variable to make the
code readable and massaged changelog]

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey <khuey@kylehuey.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214081104.9244-3-khuey@kylehuey.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
arch/x86/kernel/process.c

index 87103e8..076e868 100644 (file)
 
 /* DEBUGCTLMSR bits (others vary by model): */
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR                        (1UL <<  0) /* last branch recording */
+#define DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF_SHIFT          1
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF                        (1UL <<  1) /* single-step on branches */
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_TR                 (1UL <<  6)
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_BTS                        (1UL <<  7)
index 0e1999e..496eef6 100644 (file)
@@ -227,13 +227,15 @@ void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
 
        propagate_user_return_notify(prev_p, next_p);
 
-       if ((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP) {
-               unsigned long debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();
+       if ((tifp & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP || tifn & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP) &&
+           arch_has_block_step()) {
+               unsigned long debugctl, msk;
 
+               rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, debugctl);
                debugctl &= ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
-               if (tifn & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP)
-                       debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
-               update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
+               msk = tifn & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP;
+               debugctl |= (msk >> TIF_BLOCKSTEP) << DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF_SHIFT;
+               wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, debugctl);
        }
 
        if ((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_NOTSC) {