linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity)

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:15:31 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data
 Integrity)

From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:57:16 -0700

> +static inline void enable_adi(void)
> +{
 ...
> +	__asm__ __volatile__(
> +		"rdpr %%pstate, %%g1\n\t"
> +		"or %%g1, %0, %%g1\n\t"
> +		"wrpr %%g1, %%g0, %%pstate\n\t"
> +		".word 0x83438000\n\t"	/* rd %mcdper, %g1 */
> +		".word 0xaf900001\n\t"	/* wrpr  %g0, %g1, %pmcdper */
> +		:
> +		: "i" (PSTATE_MCDE)
> +		: "g1");
> +}

This is _crazy_ expensive.

This is 4 privileged register operations, every single one incurs a full
pipline flush and virtual cpu thread yield.

And we do this around _every_ single userspace access from the kernel
when the thread has ADI enabled.

I think if the kernel manages the ADI metadata properly, you can get rid
of all of this.

On etrap, you change ESTATE_PSTATE{1,2} to have the MCDE bit enabled.
Then the kernel always runs with ADI enabled.

Furthermore, since the %mcdper register should be set to whatever the
current task has asked for, you should be able to avoid touching it
as well assuming that traps do not change %mcdper's value.

Then you don't need to do anything special during userspace accesses
which seems to be the way this was designed to be used.