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Message-ID: <27d8dffc-cfd8-4f07-9c0a-b7101963c2ae@csgroup.eu>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2023 15:52:34 +0000
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ved Shanbhogue <ved@...osinc.com>,
        Matt Evans <mev@...osinc.com>,
        Dylan Jhong <dylan@...estech.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
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        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT 1/4] riscv: Stop emitting preventive sfence.vma
 for new vmalloc mappings



Le 07/12/2023 à 16:03, Alexandre Ghiti a écrit :
> In 6.5, we removed the vmalloc fault path because that can't work (see
> [1] [2]). Then in order to make sure that new page table entries were
> seen by the page table walker, we had to preventively emit a sfence.vma
> on all harts [3] but this solution is very costly since it relies on IPI.
> 
> And even there, we could end up in a loop of vmalloc faults if a vmalloc
> allocation is done in the IPI path (for example if it is traced, see
> [4]), which could result in a kernel stack overflow.
> 
> Those preventive sfence.vma needed to be emitted because:
> 
> - if the uarch caches invalid entries, the new mapping may not be
>    observed by the page table walker and an invalidation may be needed.
> - if the uarch does not cache invalid entries, a reordered access
>    could "miss" the new mapping and traps: in that case, we would actually
>    only need to retry the access, no sfence.vma is required.
> 
> So this patch removes those preventive sfence.vma and actually handles
> the possible (and unlikely) exceptions. And since the kernel stacks
> mappings lie in the vmalloc area, this handling must be done very early
> when the trap is taken, at the very beginning of handle_exception: this
> also rules out the vmalloc allocations in the fault path.
> 
> Note that for now, we emit a sfence.vma even for uarchs that do not
> cache invalid entries as we have no means to know that: that will be
> fixed in the next patch.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230531093817.665799-1-bjorn@kernel.org/ [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230801090927.2018653-1-dylan@andestech.com [2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230725132246.817726-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/ [3]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200508144043.13893-1-joro@8bytes.org/ [4]
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h  | 19 +++++-
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h |  5 ++
>   arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c      |  5 ++
>   arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S            | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/riscv/mm/init.c                 |  2 +
>   5 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> index 3cb53c4df27c..a916cbc69d47 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> @@ -37,7 +37,24 @@ static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
>   	flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> -#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end)	flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end)
> +extern u64 new_vmalloc[];

Can you have the table size here ? Would help GCC static analysis for 
boundary checking.

> +extern char _end[];
> +#define flush_cache_vmap flush_cache_vmap
> +static inline void flush_cache_vmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> +{
> +	if ((start < VMALLOC_END && end > VMALLOC_START) ||
> +	    (start < MODULES_END && end > MODULES_VADDR)) {

Can you use is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() instead ?


> +		int i;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * We don't care if concurrently a cpu resets this value since
> +		 * the only place this can happen is in handle_exception() where
> +		 * an sfence.vma is emitted.
> +		 */
> +		for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS / sizeof(u64) + 1; ++i)

Use ARRAY_SIZE() ?

> +			new_vmalloc[i] = -1ULL;
> +	}
> +}
>   #endif
>   
>   #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index 1833beb00489..8fe12fa6c329 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ struct thread_info {
>   	long			user_sp;	/* User stack pointer */
>   	int			cpu;
>   	unsigned long		syscall_work;	/* SYSCALL_WORK_ flags */
> +	/*
> +	 * Used in handle_exception() to save a0, a1 and a2 before knowing if we
> +	 * can access the kernel stack.
> +	 */
> +	unsigned long		a0, a1, a2;
>   };
>   
>   /*
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> index d6a75aac1d27..340c1c84560d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> @@ -34,10 +34,15 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_S9, task_struct, thread.s[9]);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_S10, task_struct, thread.s[10]);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_S11, task_struct, thread.s[11]);
> +
> +	OFFSET(TASK_TI_CPU, task_struct, thread_info.cpu);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_FLAGS, task_struct, thread_info.flags);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT, task_struct, thread_info.preempt_count);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_KERNEL_SP, task_struct, thread_info.kernel_sp);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_USER_SP, task_struct, thread_info.user_sp);
> +	OFFSET(TASK_TI_A0, task_struct, thread_info.a0);
> +	OFFSET(TASK_TI_A1, task_struct, thread_info.a1);
> +	OFFSET(TASK_TI_A2, task_struct, thread_info.a2);
>   
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F0,  task_struct, thread.fstate.f[0]);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F1,  task_struct, thread.fstate.f[1]);
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> index 143a2bb3e697..3a3c7b563816 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -14,6 +14,88 @@
>   #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
>   #include <asm/errata_list.h>
>   
> +.macro new_vmalloc_check
> +	REG_S 	a0, TASK_TI_A0(tp)
> +	REG_S 	a1, TASK_TI_A1(tp)
> +	REG_S	a2, TASK_TI_A2(tp)
> +
> +	csrr 	a0, CSR_CAUSE
> +	/* Exclude IRQs */
> +	blt  	a0, zero, _new_vmalloc_restore_context
> +	/* Only check new_vmalloc if we are in page/protection fault */
> +	li   	a1, EXC_LOAD_PAGE_FAULT
> +	beq  	a0, a1, _new_vmalloc_kernel_address
> +	li   	a1, EXC_STORE_PAGE_FAULT
> +	beq  	a0, a1, _new_vmalloc_kernel_address
> +	li   	a1, EXC_INST_PAGE_FAULT
> +	bne  	a0, a1, _new_vmalloc_restore_context
> +
> +_new_vmalloc_kernel_address:
> +	/* Is it a kernel address? */
> +	csrr 	a0, CSR_TVAL
> +	bge 	a0, zero, _new_vmalloc_restore_context
> +
> +	/* Check if a new vmalloc mapping appeared that could explain the trap */
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Computes:
> +	 * a0 = &new_vmalloc[BIT_WORD(cpu)]
> +	 * a1 = BIT_MASK(cpu)
> +	 */
> +	REG_L 	a2, TASK_TI_CPU(tp)
> +	/*
> +	 * Compute the new_vmalloc element position:
> +	 * (cpu / 64) * 8 = (cpu >> 6) << 3
> +	 */
> +	srli	a1, a2, 6
> +	slli	a1, a1, 3
> +	la	a0, new_vmalloc
> +	add	a0, a0, a1
> +	/*
> +	 * Compute the bit position in the new_vmalloc element:
> +	 * bit_pos = cpu % 64 = cpu - (cpu / 64) * 64 = cpu - (cpu >> 6) << 6
> +	 * 	   = cpu - ((cpu >> 6) << 3) << 3
> +	 */
> +	slli	a1, a1, 3
> +	sub	a1, a2, a1
> +	/* Compute the "get mask": 1 << bit_pos */
> +	li	a2, 1
> +	sll	a1, a2, a1
> +
> +	/* Check the value of new_vmalloc for this cpu */
> +	ld	a2, 0(a0)
> +	and	a2, a2, a1
> +	beq	a2, zero, _new_vmalloc_restore_context
> +
> +	ld	a2, 0(a0)
> +	not	a1, a1
> +	and	a1, a2, a1
> +	sd	a1, 0(a0)
> +
> +	/* Only emit a sfence.vma if the uarch caches invalid entries */
> +	la	a0, tlb_caching_invalid_entries
> +	lb	a0, 0(a0)
> +	beqz	a0, _new_vmalloc_no_caching_invalid_entries
> +	sfence.vma
> +_new_vmalloc_no_caching_invalid_entries:
> +	// debug
> +	la	a0, nr_sfence_vma_handle_exception
> +	li	a1, 1
> +	amoadd.w    a0, a1, (a0)
> +	// end debug
> +	REG_L	a0, TASK_TI_A0(tp)
> +	REG_L	a1, TASK_TI_A1(tp)
> +	REG_L	a2, TASK_TI_A2(tp)
> +	csrw	CSR_SCRATCH, x0
> +	sret
> +
> +_new_vmalloc_restore_context:
> +	REG_L	a0, TASK_TI_A0(tp)
> +	REG_L 	a1, TASK_TI_A1(tp)
> +	REG_L 	a2, TASK_TI_A2(tp)
> +.endm
> +
> +
>   SYM_CODE_START(handle_exception)
>   	/*
>   	 * If coming from userspace, preserve the user thread pointer and load
> @@ -25,6 +107,18 @@ SYM_CODE_START(handle_exception)
>   
>   _restore_kernel_tpsp:
>   	csrr tp, CSR_SCRATCH
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The RISC-V kernel does not eagerly emit a sfence.vma after each
> +	 * new vmalloc mapping, which may result in exceptions:
> +	 * - if the uarch caches invalid entries, the new mapping would not be
> +	 *   observed by the page table walker and an invalidation is needed.
> +	 * - if the uarch does not cache invalid entries, a reordered access
> +	 *   could "miss" the new mapping and traps: in that case, we only need
> +	 *   to retry the access, no sfence.vma is required.
> +	 */
> +	new_vmalloc_check
> +
>   	REG_S sp, TASK_TI_KERNEL_SP(tp)
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> index 0798bd861dcb..379403de6c6f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
>   
>   #include "../kernel/head.h"
>   
> +u64 new_vmalloc[NR_CPUS / sizeof(u64) + 1];
> +
>   struct kernel_mapping kernel_map __ro_after_init;
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_map);
>   #ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL

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