linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: csrc-r4k: Don't register as sched

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20240511-mips-clks-v1-4-ddb4a10ee9f9@flygoat.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 17:00:11 +0100
From: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>, 
 Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>, 
 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>, 
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: csrc-r4k: Don't register as sched_clock if unfit

When we have more than one CPU in system, counter synchronisation
overhead can lead to a scenario that sched_clock goes backward when
being read from different CPUs.

This is accommodated by CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK, but it's
unavailable on 32bit kernel.

We don't want to risk sched_clock correctness, so if we have multiple
CPU in system and CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is not set, we just
don't use counter as sched_clock source.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
---
 arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c b/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c
index 5c37e41e8970..18733a2ec594 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c
@@ -68,6 +68,18 @@ static bool rdhwr_count_usable(void)
 	return false;
 }
 
+static inline __init bool count_can_be_sched_clock(void)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ))
+		return false;
+
+	if (num_possible_cpus() > 1 &&
+			!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK))
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
 
 static bool __read_mostly r4k_clock_unstable;
@@ -125,9 +137,8 @@ int __init init_r4k_clocksource(void)
 
 	clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_mips, mips_hpt_frequency);
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
-	sched_clock_register(r4k_read_sched_clock, 32, mips_hpt_frequency);
-#endif
+	if (count_can_be_sched_clock())
+		sched_clock_register(r4k_read_sched_clock, 32, mips_hpt_frequency);
 
 	return 0;
 }

-- 
2.34.1