x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()

In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
  >
  > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
  > >
  > > However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  > > It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  > > looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  > > caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  > > for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  >
  > Right.
  >
  > And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  > generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  > for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  > artifact of the architecture oddity.
  >
  > In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  > but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  > having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 5e40786c8f12..d13304a034f5 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -637,30 +637,30 @@ size_t _copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_to_iter);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE
-static int copyout_mcsafe(void __user *to, const void *from, size_t n)
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC
+static int copyout_mc(void __user *to, const void *from, size_t n)
 {
 	if (access_ok(to, n)) {
 		instrument_copy_to_user(to, from, n);
-		n = copy_to_user_mcsafe((__force void *) to, from, n);
+		n = copy_mc_to_user((__force void *) to, from, n);
 	}
 	return n;
 }
 
-static unsigned long memcpy_mcsafe_to_page(struct page *page, size_t offset,
+static unsigned long copy_mc_to_page(struct page *page, size_t offset,
 		const char *from, size_t len)
 {
 	unsigned long ret;
 	char *to;
 
 	to = kmap_atomic(page);
-	ret = memcpy_mcsafe(to + offset, from, len);
+	ret = copy_mc_to_kernel(to + offset, from, len);
 	kunmap_atomic(to);
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static size_t copy_pipe_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes,
+static size_t copy_mc_pipe_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes,
 				struct iov_iter *i)
 {
 	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = i->pipe;
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ static size_t copy_pipe_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes,
 		size_t chunk = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - off);
 		unsigned long rem;
 
-		rem = memcpy_mcsafe_to_page(pipe->bufs[i_head & p_mask].page,
+		rem = copy_mc_to_page(pipe->bufs[i_head & p_mask].page,
 					    off, addr, chunk);
 		i->head = i_head;
 		i->iov_offset = off + chunk - rem;
@@ -695,18 +695,17 @@ static size_t copy_pipe_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes,
 }
 
 /**
- * _copy_to_iter_mcsafe - copy to user with source-read error exception handling
+ * _copy_mc_to_iter - copy to iter with source memory error exception handling
  * @addr: source kernel address
  * @bytes: total transfer length
  * @iter: destination iterator
  *
- * The pmem driver arranges for filesystem-dax to use this facility via
- * dax_copy_to_iter() for protecting read/write to persistent memory.
- * Unless / until an architecture can guarantee identical performance
- * between _copy_to_iter_mcsafe() and _copy_to_iter() it would be a
- * performance regression to switch more users to the mcsafe version.
+ * The pmem driver deploys this for the dax operation
+ * (dax_copy_to_iter()) for dax reads (bypass page-cache and the
+ * block-layer). Upon #MC read(2) aborts and returns EIO or the bytes
+ * successfully copied.
  *
- * Otherwise, the main differences between this and typical _copy_to_iter().
+ * The main differences between this and typical _copy_to_iter().
  *
  * * Typical tail/residue handling after a fault retries the copy
  *   byte-by-byte until the fault happens again. Re-triggering machine
@@ -717,23 +716,22 @@ static size_t copy_pipe_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes,
  * * ITER_KVEC, ITER_PIPE, and ITER_BVEC can return short copies.
  *   Compare to copy_to_iter() where only ITER_IOVEC attempts might return
  *   a short copy.
- *
- * See MCSAFE_TEST for self-test.
  */
-size_t _copy_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
+size_t _copy_mc_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 {
 	const char *from = addr;
 	unsigned long rem, curr_addr, s_addr = (unsigned long) addr;
 
 	if (unlikely(iov_iter_is_pipe(i)))
-		return copy_pipe_to_iter_mcsafe(addr, bytes, i);
+		return copy_mc_pipe_to_iter(addr, bytes, i);
 	if (iter_is_iovec(i))
 		might_fault();
 	iterate_and_advance(i, bytes, v,
-		copyout_mcsafe(v.iov_base, (from += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len, v.iov_len),
+		copyout_mc(v.iov_base, (from += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len,
+			   v.iov_len),
 		({
-		rem = memcpy_mcsafe_to_page(v.bv_page, v.bv_offset,
-                               (from += v.bv_len) - v.bv_len, v.bv_len);
+		rem = copy_mc_to_page(v.bv_page, v.bv_offset,
+				      (from += v.bv_len) - v.bv_len, v.bv_len);
 		if (rem) {
 			curr_addr = (unsigned long) from;
 			bytes = curr_addr - s_addr - rem;
@@ -741,8 +739,8 @@ size_t _copy_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 		}
 		}),
 		({
-		rem = memcpy_mcsafe(v.iov_base, (from += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len,
-				v.iov_len);
+		rem = copy_mc_to_kernel(v.iov_base, (from += v.iov_len)
+					- v.iov_len, v.iov_len);
 		if (rem) {
 			curr_addr = (unsigned long) from;
 			bytes = curr_addr - s_addr - rem;
@@ -753,8 +751,8 @@ size_t _copy_to_iter_mcsafe(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 
 	return bytes;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(_copy_to_iter_mcsafe);
-#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(_copy_mc_to_iter);
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC */
 
 size_t _copy_from_iter(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 {