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<entry>
<title>x86/uaccess: instrument copy_from_user_nmi()</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T23:57:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-02T11:06:08Z</published>
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Make sure usercopy hooks from linux/instrumented.h are invoked for
copy_from_user_nmi().  This fixes KMSAN false positives reported when
dumping opcodes for a stack trace.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221102110611.1085175-2-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-10-04T16:21:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T16:21:30Z</published>
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Print the CPU number at segfault time.

   The number printed is not always accurate (preemption is enabled at
   that time) but the print string contains "likely" and after a lot of
   back'n'forth on this, this was the consensus that was reached. See
   thread at [1].

 - After a *lot* of testing and polishing, finally the clear_user()
   improvements to inline REP; STOSB by default

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5d62c1d0-7425-d5bb-ecb5-1dc3b4d7d245@intel.com [1]

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Print likely CPU at segfault time
  x86/clear_user: Make it faster
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kcfi-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2022-10-04T00:11:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T00:11:07Z</published>
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Pull kcfi updates from Kees Cook:
 "This replaces the prior support for Clang's standard Control Flow
  Integrity (CFI) instrumentation, which has required a lot of special
  conditions (e.g. LTO) and work-arounds.

  The new implementation ("Kernel CFI") is specific to C, directly
  designed for the Linux kernel, and takes advantage of architectural
  features like x86's IBT. This series retains arm64 support and adds
  x86 support.

  GCC support is expected in the future[1], and additional "generic"
  architectural support is expected soon[2].

  Summary:

   - treewide: Remove old CFI support details

   - arm64: Replace Clang CFI support with Clang KCFI support

   - x86: Introduce Clang KCFI support"

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107048 [1]
Link: https://github.com/samitolvanen/llvm-project/commits/kcfi_generic [2]

* tag 'kcfi-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits)
  x86: Add support for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
  x86/purgatory: Disable CFI
  x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
  x86/tools/relocs: Ignore __kcfi_typeid_ relocations
  kallsyms: Drop CONFIG_CFI_CLANG workarounds
  objtool: Disable CFI warnings
  objtool: Preserve special st_shndx indexes in elf_update_symbol
  treewide: Drop __cficanonical
  treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH
  treewide: Drop function_nocfi
  init: Drop __nocfi from __init
  arm64: Drop unneeded __nocfi attributes
  arm64: Add CFI error handling
  arm64: Add types to indirect called assembly functions
  psci: Fix the function type for psci_initcall_t
  lkdtm: Emit an indirect call for CFI tests
  cfi: Add type helper macros
  cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi
  cfi: Drop __CFI_ADDRESSABLE
  cfi: Remove CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86: kasan: kmsan: support CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM on x86, enable it for KASAN/KMSAN</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:04:11Z</published>
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This is needed to allow memory tools like KASAN and KMSAN see the memory
accesses from the checksum code.  Without CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM the tools
can't see memory accesses originating from handwritten assembly code.

For KASAN it's a question of detecting more bugs, for KMSAN using the C
implementation also helps avoid false positives originating from seemingly
uninitialized checksum values.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-38-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: kmsan: handle open-coded assembly in lib/iomem.c</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:04:08Z</published>
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KMSAN cannot intercept memory accesses within asm() statements.  That's
why we add kmsan_unpoison_memory() and kmsan_check_memory() to hint it how
to handle memory copied from/to I/O memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-35-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>x86/uaccess: avoid check_object_size() in copy_from_user_nmi()</title>
<updated>2022-09-26T19:14:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-19T20:16:48Z</published>
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The check_object_size() helper under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is designed
to skip any checks where the length is known at compile time as a
reasonable heuristic to avoid "likely known-good" cases.  However, it can
only do this when the copy_*_user() helpers are, themselves, inline too.

Using find_vmap_area() requires taking a spinlock.  The
check_object_size() helper can call find_vmap_area() when the destination
is in vmap memory.  If show_regs() is called in interrupt context, it will
attempt a call to copy_from_user_nmi(), which may call check_object_size()
and then find_vmap_area().  If something in normal context happens to be
in the middle of calling find_vmap_area() (with the spinlock held), the
interrupt handler will hang forever.

The copy_from_user_nmi() call is actually being called with a fixed-size
length, so check_object_size() should never have been called in the first
place.  Given the narrow constraints, just replace the
__copy_from_user_inatomic() call with an open-coded version that calls
only into the sanitizers and not check_object_size(), followed by a call
to raw_copy_from_user().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: no instrument_copy_from_user() in my tree...]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919201648.2250764-1-keescook@chromium.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOUHufaPshtKrTWOz7T7QFYUNVGFm0JBjvM700Nhf9qEL9b3EQ@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 0aef499f3172 ("mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Florian Lehner &lt;dev@der-flo.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Florian Lehner &lt;dev@der-flo.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions</title>
<updated>2022-09-26T17:13:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-08T21:55:02Z</published>
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With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, assembly functions indirectly called
from C code must be annotated with type identifiers to pass CFI
checking. Define the __CFI_TYPE helper macro to match the compiler
generated function preamble, and ensure SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START also
emits ENDBR with IBT.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-21-samitolvanen@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/clear_user: Make it faster</title>
<updated>2022-08-18T10:36:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-24T09:01:18Z</published>
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Based on a patch by Mark Hemment &lt;markhemm@googlemail.com&gt; and
incorporating very sane suggestions from Linus.

The point here is to have the default case with FSRM - which is supposed
to be the majority of x86 hw out there - if not now then soon - be
directly inlined into the instruction stream so that no function call
overhead is taking place.

Drop the early clobbers from the @size and @addr operands as those are
not needed anymore since we have single instruction alternatives.

The benchmarks I ran would show very small improvements and a PF
benchmark would even show weird things like slowdowns with higher core
counts.

So for a ~6m running the git test suite, the function gets called under
700K times, all from padzero():

  &lt;...&gt;-2536    [006] .....   261.208801: padzero: to: 0x55b0663ed214, size: 3564, cycles: 21900
  &lt;...&gt;-2536    [006] .....   261.208819: padzero: to: 0x7f061adca078, size: 3976, cycles: 17160
  &lt;...&gt;-2537    [008] .....   261.211027: padzero: to: 0x5572d019e240, size: 3520, cycles: 23850
  &lt;...&gt;-2537    [008] .....   261.211049: padzero: to: 0x7f1288dc9078, size: 3976, cycles: 15900
   ...

which is around 1%-ish of the total time and which is consistent with
the benchmark numbers.

So Mel gave me the idea to simply measure how fast the function becomes.
I.e.:

  start = rdtsc_ordered();
  ret = __clear_user(to, n);
  end = rdtsc_ordered();

Computing the mean average of all the samples collected during the test
suite run then shows some improvement:

  clear_user_original:
  Amean: 9219.71 (Sum: 6340154910, samples: 687674)

  fsrm:
  Amean: 8030.63 (Sum: 5522277720, samples: 687652)

That's on Zen3.

The situation looks a lot more confusing on Intel:

Icelake:

  clear_user_original:
  Amean: 19679.4 (Sum: 13652560764, samples: 693750)
  Amean: 19743.7 (Sum: 13693470604, samples: 693562)

(I ran it twice just to be sure.)

  ERMS:
  Amean: 20374.3 (Sum: 13910601024, samples: 682752)
  Amean: 20453.7 (Sum: 14186223606, samples: 693576)

  FSRM:
  Amean: 20458.2 (Sum: 13918381386, sample s: 680331)

The original microbenchmark which people were complaining about:

  for i in $(seq 1 10); do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress count=65536; done 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep copied
  32207011840 bytes (32 GB, 30 GiB) copied, 1 s, 32.2 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.93069 s, 35.6 GB/s
  37597741056 bytes (38 GB, 35 GiB) copied, 1 s, 37.6 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.78017 s, 38.6 GB/s
  62020124672 bytes (62 GB, 58 GiB) copied, 2 s, 31.0 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 2.13716 s, 32.2 GB/s
  60010004480 bytes (60 GB, 56 GiB) copied, 1 s, 60.0 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.14129 s, 60.2 GB/s
  53212086272 bytes (53 GB, 50 GiB) copied, 1 s, 53.2 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.28398 s, 53.5 GB/s
  55698259968 bytes (56 GB, 52 GiB) copied, 1 s, 55.7 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.22507 s, 56.1 GB/s
  55306092544 bytes (55 GB, 52 GiB) copied, 1 s, 55.3 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.23647 s, 55.6 GB/s
  54387539968 bytes (54 GB, 51 GiB) copied, 1 s, 54.4 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.25693 s, 54.7 GB/s
  50566529024 bytes (51 GB, 47 GiB) copied, 1 s, 50.6 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.35096 s, 50.9 GB/s
  58308165632 bytes (58 GB, 54 GiB) copied, 1 s, 58.3 GB/s
  68719476736 bytes (69 GB, 64 GiB) copied, 1.17394 s, 58.5 GB/s

Now the same thing with smaller buffers:

  for i in $(seq 1 10); do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress count=8192; done 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep copied
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.28485 s, 30.2 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.276112 s, 31.1 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.29136 s, 29.5 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.283803 s, 30.3 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.306503 s, 28.0 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.349169 s, 24.6 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.276912 s, 31.0 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.265356 s, 32.4 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.28464 s, 30.2 GB/s
  8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 0.242998 s, 35.3 GB/s

is also not conclusive because it all depends on the buffer sizes,
their alignments and when the microcode detects that cachelines can be
aggregated properly and copied in bigger sizes.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh=Mu_EYhtOmPn6AxoQZyEh-4fo2Zx3G7rBv1g7vwoKiw@mail.gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T15:43:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-27T22:21:17Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=f43b9876e857c739d407bc56df288b0ebe1a9164'/>
<id>urn:sha1:f43b9876e857c739d407bc56df288b0ebe1a9164</id>
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Do fine-grained Kconfig for all the various retbleed parts.

NOTE: if your compiler doesn't support return thunks this will
silently 'upgrade' your mitigation to IBPB, you might not like this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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