linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.1 50/65] kaiser: add "nokaiser" boot option, using ALTERNATIVE

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Date:   Mon,  5 Mar 2018 19:25:23 -0500
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     steven.sistare@...cle.com, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...el.com,
        pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@...el.com, akuster@...sta.com,
        cminyard@...sta.com, pasha.tatashin@...cle.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4.1 50/65] kaiser: add "nokaiser" boot option, using ALTERNATIVE

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

Added "nokaiser" boot option: an early param like "noinvpcid".
Most places now check int kaiser_enabled (#defined 0 when not
CONFIG_KAISER) instead of #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER; but entry_64.S
and entry_64_compat.S are using the ALTERNATIVE technique, which
patches in the preferred instructions at runtime.  That technique
is tied to x86 cpu features, so X86_FEATURE_KAISER is fabricated.

Prior to "nokaiser", Kaiser #defined _PAGE_GLOBAL 0: revert that,
but be careful with both _PAGE_GLOBAL and CR4.PGE: setting them when
nokaiser like when !CONFIG_KAISER, but not setting either when kaiser -
neither matters on its own, but it's hard to be sure that _PAGE_GLOBAL
won't get set in some obscure corner, or something add PGE into CR4.
By omitting _PAGE_GLOBAL from __supported_pte_mask when kaiser_enabled,
all page table setup which uses pte_pfn() masks it out of the ptes.

It's slightly shameful that the same declaration versus definition of
kaiser_enabled appears in not one, not two, but in three header files
(asm/kaiser.h, asm/pgtable.h, asm/tlbflush.h).  I felt safer that way,
than with #including any of those in any of the others; and did not
feel it worth an asm/kaiser_enabled.h - kernel/cpu/common.c includes
them all, so we shall hear about it if they get out of synch.

Cleanups while in the area: removed the silly #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
from kaiser.c; removed the unused native_get_normal_pgd(); removed
the spurious reg clutter from SWITCH_*_CR3 macro stubs; corrected some
comments.  But more interestingly, set CR4.PSE in secondary_startup_64:
the manual is clear that it does not matter whether it's 0 or 1 when
4-level-pts are enabled, but I was distracted to find cr4 different on
BSP and auxiliaries - BSP alone was adding PSE, in probe_page_size_mask().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit e345dcc9481543edf4a0a5df4c4c2f9597b0a997)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S (not in this tree)
	arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S (patched instead of that)
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index b62f5b1a4361..8effe086de27 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@
 /* Because the ALTERNATIVE scheme is for members of the X86_FEATURE club... */
 #define X86_FEATURE_KAISER	( 7*32+31) /* CONFIG_KAISER w/o nokaiser */

+/* Because the ALTERNATIVE scheme is for members of the X86_FEATURE club... */
+#define X86_FEATURE_KAISER	( 7*32+31) /* CONFIG_KAISER w/o nokaiser */
+
 /* Virtualization flags: Linux defined, word 8 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW  ( 8*32+ 0) /* Intel TPR Shadow */
 #define X86_FEATURE_VNMI        ( 8*32+ 1) /* Intel Virtual NMI */
-- 
2.16.2