linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: spectre: increase parameters that can be used to turn off bhb mitigation individually

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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:25:00 +0800
From:   Liu Song <liusong@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org, james.morse@....com
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: spectre: increase parameters that can be used to
 turn off bhb mitigation individually

Hi,

Is there any potential problem with this modification? Looking forward 
to your reply.

Thanks

> From: Liu Song <liusong@...ux.alibaba.com>
>
> In our environment, it was found that the mitigation BHB has a great
> impact on the benchmark performance. For example, in the lmbench test,
> the "process fork && exit" test performance drops by 20%.
> So it is necessary to have the ability to turn off the mitigation
> individually through cmdline, thus avoiding having to compile the
> kernel by adjusting the config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liusong@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c | 10 +++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
> index 40be3a7..bd16903 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
> @@ -988,6 +988,14 @@ static void this_cpu_set_vectors(enum arm64_bp_harden_el1_vectors slot)
>   	isb();
>   }
>   
> +static bool __read_mostly __nospectre_bhb;
> +static int __init parse_spectre_bhb_param(char *str)
> +{
> +	__nospectre_bhb = true;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("nospectre_bhb", parse_spectre_bhb_param);
> +
>   void spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
>   {
>   	bp_hardening_cb_t cpu_cb;
> @@ -1001,7 +1009,7 @@ void spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
>   		/* No point mitigating Spectre-BHB alone. */
>   	} else if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY)) {
>   		pr_info_once("spectre-bhb mitigation disabled by compile time option\n");
> -	} else if (cpu_mitigations_off()) {
> +	} else if (cpu_mitigations_off() || __nospectre_bhb) {
>   		pr_info_once("spectre-bhb mitigation disabled by command line option\n");
>   	} else if (supports_ecbhb(SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU)) {
>   		state = SPECTRE_MITIGATED;