linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 05/10] arm64/cpufeature: detect pointer authentication

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Date:   Fri, 25 May 2018 11:01:37 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, catalin.marinas@....com,
        christoffer.dall@....com, drjones@...hat.com, marc.zyngier@....com,
        ramana.radhakrishnan@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        awallis@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 05/10] arm64/cpufeature: detect pointer authentication

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 09:48:28AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> On 03/05/18 14:20, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > So that we can dynamically handle the presence of pointer authentication
> > functionality, wire up probing code in cpufeature.c.
> > 
> >  From ARMv8.3 onwards, ID_AA64ISAR1 is no longer entirely RES0, and now
> > has four fields describing the presence of pointer authentication
> > functionality:
> > 
> > * APA - address authentication present, using an architected algorithm
> > * API - address authentication present, using an IMP DEF algorithm
> > * GPA - generic authentication present, using an architected algorithm
> > * GPI - generic authentication present, using an IMP DEF algorithm
> > 
> > For the moment we only care about address authentication, so we only
> > need to check APA and API. It is assumed that if all CPUs support an IMP
> > DEF algorithm, the same algorithm is used across all CPUs.
> > 
> > Note that when we implement KVM support, we will also need to ensure
> > that CPUs have uniform support for GPA and GPI.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> > ---
> >   arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h |  5 ++++-
> >   arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c   | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
> > index bc51b72fafd4..9dcb4d1b14f5 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
> > @@ -48,7 +48,10 @@
> >   #define ARM64_HAS_CACHE_IDC			27
> >   #define ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC			28
> >   #define ARM64_HW_DBM				29
> > +#define ARM64_HAS_ADDRESS_AUTH_ARCH		30
> > +#define ARM64_HAS_ADDRESS_AUTH_IMP_DEF		31
> 
> Where are these caps used ? I couldn't find anything in the series
> that uses them. Otherwise looks good to me.

Those were consumed by KVM support, which needed to detect if CPUs had
mismatched support. Currently they're just placeholders as I need a
cpucap value for the separate IMP-DEF / architected probing cases.

I *could* get rid of those and just have the ARM64_HAS_ADDRESS_AUTH case
log "Address authentication", but I wanted to have separate messages for
IMP-DEF vs architected.

Thanks,
Mark.