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Message-ID: <56F9C531.3090703@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:58:41 +1100
From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Cc: duwe@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, pmladek@...e.com, jeyu@...hat.com,
jkosina@...e.cz, live-patching@...r.kernel.org, mbenes@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct
thread_info
On 24/03/16 22:04, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> In order to support live patching we need to maintain an alternate
> stack of TOC & LR values. We use the base of the stack for this, and
> store the "live patch stack pointer" in struct thread_info.
>
> Unlike the other fields of thread_info, we can not statically initialise
> that value, so it must be done at run time.
>
> This patch just adds the code to support that, it is not enabled until
> the next patch which actually adds live patch support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h | 8 ++++++++
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 +++-
> arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 3 +++
> arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 6 +++++-
> arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
> 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
> index ad36e8e34fa1..a402f7f94896 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
> @@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ static inline unsigned long klp_get_ftrace_location(unsigned long faddr)
> */
> return ftrace_location_range(faddr, faddr + 16);
> }
> +
> +static inline void klp_init_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
> +{
> + /* + 1 to account for STACK_END_MAGIC */
> + ti->livepatch_sp = (unsigned long *)(ti + 1) + 1;
> +}
> +#else
> +static void klp_init_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { }
> #endif /* CONFIG_LIVEPATCH */
>
> #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_LIVEPATCH_H */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index 7efee4a3240b..8febc3f66d53 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ struct thread_info {
> int preempt_count; /* 0 => preemptable,
> <0 => BUG */
> unsigned long local_flags; /* private flags for thread */
> -
> +#ifdef CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
> + unsigned long *livepatch_sp;
> +#endif
> /* low level flags - has atomic operations done on it */
> unsigned long flags ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> };
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> index 290559df1e8b..3cb46a3b1de7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
> #include <asm/udbg.h>
> #include <asm/smp.h>
> #include <asm/debug.h>
> +#include <asm/livepatch.h>
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> #include <asm/paca.h>
> @@ -607,10 +608,12 @@ void irq_ctx_init(void)
> memset((void *)softirq_ctx[i], 0, THREAD_SIZE);
> tp = softirq_ctx[i];
> tp->cpu = i;
> + klp_init_thread_info(tp);
At this point ti->livepatch_sp points to the next CPUs thread_info for softirq_ctx?
>
> memset((void *)hardirq_ctx[i], 0, THREAD_SIZE);
> tp = hardirq_ctx[i];
> tp->cpu = i;
> + klp_init_thread_info(tp);
Same question here
> }
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index 612df305886b..c27215e6ef48 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
> #include <asm/firmware.h>
> #endif
> #include <asm/code-patching.h>
> +#include <asm/livepatch.h>
> +
> #include <linux/kprobes.h>
> #include <linux/kdebug.h>
>
> @@ -1400,13 +1402,15 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
> extern void ret_from_kernel_thread(void);
> void (*f)(void);
> unsigned long sp = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p) + THREAD_SIZE;
> + struct thread_info *ti = task_thread_info(p);
> +
> + klp_init_thread_info(ti);
>
> /* Copy registers */
> sp -= sizeof(struct pt_regs);
> childregs = (struct pt_regs *) sp;
> if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
> /* kernel thread */
> - struct thread_info *ti = (void *)task_stack_page(p);
> memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
> childregs->gpr[1] = sp + sizeof(struct pt_regs);
> /* function */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> index 3807fb05b6de..1b6cabb8e715 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
> #include <asm/kvm_ppc.h>
> #include <asm/hugetlb.h>
> #include <asm/epapr_hcalls.h>
> +#include <asm/livepatch.h>
>
> #ifdef DEBUG
> #define DBG(fmt...) udbg_printf(fmt)
> @@ -667,16 +668,16 @@ static void __init emergency_stack_init(void)
> limit = min(safe_stack_limit(), ppc64_rma_size);
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> - unsigned long sp;
> - sp = memblock_alloc_base(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit);
> - sp += THREAD_SIZE;
> - paca[i].emergency_sp = __va(sp);
> + struct thread_info *ti;
> + ti = __va(memblock_alloc_base(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit));
> + klp_init_thread_info(ti);
> + paca[i].emergency_sp = (void *)ti + THREAD_SIZE;
>
Does emergency_sp still end up 128 byte aligned after this?
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
> /* emergency stack for machine check exception handling. */
> - sp = memblock_alloc_base(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit);
> - sp += THREAD_SIZE;
> - paca[i].mc_emergency_sp = __va(sp);
> + ti = __va(memblock_alloc_base(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit));
> + klp_init_thread_info(ti);
Do we care about live-patching in this context? Are we mixing per-thread and per-cpu contexts?
> + paca[i].mc_emergency_sp = (void *)ti + THREAD_SIZE;
> #endif
> }
> }
> @@ -700,6 +701,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> if (ppc_md.panic)
> setup_panic();
>
> + klp_init_thread_info(&init_thread_info);
> +
> init_mm.start_code = (unsigned long)_stext;
> init_mm.end_code = (unsigned long) _etext;
> init_mm.end_data = (unsigned long) _edata;
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