linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 11/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Use FSGSBASE in switch

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Message-Id: <1570212969-21888-12-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Date:   Fri,  4 Oct 2019 11:16:03 -0700
From:   "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, bp@...en8.de,
        luto@...nel.org
Cc:     hpa@...or.com, dave.hansen@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, ravi.v.shankar@...el.com,
        chang.seok.bae@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH v9 11/17] x86/fsgsbase/64: Use FSGSBASE in switch_to() if available

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

With the new FSGSBASE instructions, FS/GS base can be efficiently read
and written in __switch_to(). Use that capability to preserve the full
state.

This will enable user code to do whatever it wants with the new
instructions without any kernel-induced gotchas.  (There can still be
architectural gotchas: movl %gs,%eax; movl %eax,%gs may change GS base
if WRGSBASE was used, but users are expected to read the CPU manual
before doing things like that.)

This is a considerable speedup. It seems to save about 100 cycles per
context switch compared to the baseline 4.6-rc1 behavior on a Skylake
laptop.

[ chang: 5~10% performance improvements were seen by a context switch
  benchmark that ran threads with different FS/GS base values (to the
  baseline 4.16). ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---

Changes from v8:
* Rebased on the precedent helper changes; removed the interrupt
  condition check and IRQ disablement from save_fsgs() and
  x86_fsgsbase_load().

Changes from v7:
* Used appropriate GS base read/write functions depending on interrupt
  conditions. This fixes the bug in v7.
* Massaged changelog by Thomas
* Used '[FS|GS] base' consistently, instead of '[FS|GS]BASE'
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 295aa0c..56c0e5b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -200,8 +200,18 @@ static __always_inline void save_fsgs(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	savesegment(fs, task->thread.fsindex);
 	savesegment(gs, task->thread.gsindex);
-	save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.fsindex, FS);
-	save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.gsindex, GS);
+	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE)) {
+		/*
+		 * If FSGSBASE is enabled, we can't make any useful guesses
+		 * about the base, and user code expects us to save the current
+		 * value.  Fortunately, reading the base directly is efficient.
+		 */
+		task->thread.fsbase = rdfsbase();
+		task->thread.gsbase = x86_gsbase_read_cpu_inactive();
+	} else {
+		save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.fsindex, FS);
+		save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.gsindex, GS);
+	}
 }
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM)
@@ -280,10 +290,22 @@ static __always_inline void load_seg_legacy(unsigned short prev_index,
 static __always_inline void x86_fsgsbase_load(struct thread_struct *prev,
 					      struct thread_struct *next)
 {
-	load_seg_legacy(prev->fsindex, prev->fsbase,
-			next->fsindex, next->fsbase, FS);
-	load_seg_legacy(prev->gsindex, prev->gsbase,
-			next->gsindex, next->gsbase, GS);
+	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE)) {
+		/* Update the FS and GS selectors if they could have changed. */
+		if (unlikely(prev->fsindex || next->fsindex))
+			loadseg(FS, next->fsindex);
+		if (unlikely(prev->gsindex || next->gsindex))
+			loadseg(GS, next->gsindex);
+
+		/* Update the bases. */
+		wrfsbase(next->fsbase);
+		x86_gsbase_write_cpu_inactive(next->gsbase);
+	} else {
+		load_seg_legacy(prev->fsindex, prev->fsbase,
+				next->fsindex, next->fsbase, FS);
+		load_seg_legacy(prev->gsindex, prev->gsbase,
+				next->gsindex, next->gsbase, GS);
+	}
 }
 
 static unsigned long x86_fsgsbase_read_task(struct task_struct *task,
-- 
2.7.4