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2022-08-18x86/clear_user: Make it fasterBorislav Petkov1-0/+45
Based on a patch by Mark Hemment <markhemm@googlemail.com> 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(): <...>-2536 [006] ..... 261.208801: padzero: to: 0x55b0663ed214, size: 3564, cycles: 21900 <...>-2536 [006] ..... 261.208819: padzero: to: 0x7f061adca078, size: 3976, cycles: 17160 <...>-2537 [008] ..... 261.211027: padzero: to: 0x5572d019e240, size: 3520, cycles: 23850 <...>-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>&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>&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 <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh=Mu_EYhtOmPn6AxoQZyEh-4fo2Zx3G7rBv1g7vwoKiw@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-08arch: remove compat_alloc_user_spaceArnd Bergmann1-7/+0
All users of compat_alloc_user_space() and copy_in_user() have been removed from the kernel, only a few functions in sparc remain that can be changed to calling arch_copy_in_user() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210727144859.4150043-7-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-06x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()Dan Williams1-20/+0
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
2020-03-18x86: get rid of small constant size cases in raw_copy_{to,from}_user()Al Viro1-106/+2
Very few call sites where that would be triggered remain, and none of those is anywhere near hot enough to bother. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-04-03x86/uaccess: Move copy_user_handle_tail() into asmPeter Zijlstra1-3/+0
By writing the function in asm we avoid cross object code flow and objtool no longer gets confused about a 'stray' CLAC. Also; the asm version is actually _simpler_. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-16x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Fix copy_to_user_mcsafe() exception handlingDan Williams1-1/+6
All copy_to_user() implementations need to be prepared to handle faults accessing userspace. The __memcpy_mcsafe() implementation handles both mmu-faults on the user destination and machine-check-exceptions on the source buffer. However, the memcpy_mcsafe() wrapper may silently fallback to memcpy() depending on build options and cpu-capabilities. Force copy_to_user_mcsafe() to always use __memcpy_mcsafe() when available, and otherwise disable all of the copy_to_user_mcsafe() infrastructure when __memcpy_mcsafe() is not available, i.e. CONFIG_X86_MCE=n. This fixes crashes of the form: run fstests generic/323 at 2018-07-02 12:46:23 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00007f0d50001000 RIP: 0010:__memcpy+0x12/0x20 [..] Call Trace: copyout_mcsafe+0x3a/0x50 _copy_to_iter_mcsafe+0xa1/0x4a0 ? dax_alive+0x30/0x50 dax_iomap_actor+0x1f9/0x280 ? dax_iomap_rw+0x100/0x100 iomap_apply+0xba/0x130 ? dax_iomap_rw+0x100/0x100 dax_iomap_rw+0x95/0x100 ? dax_iomap_rw+0x100/0x100 xfs_file_dax_read+0x7b/0x1d0 [xfs] xfs_file_read_iter+0xa7/0xc0 [xfs] aio_read+0x11c/0x1a0 Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Fixes: 8780356ef630 ("x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Define copy_to_iter_mcsafe()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153108277790.37979.1486841789275803399.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-15x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Define copy_to_iter_mcsafe()Dan Williams1-0/+11
Use the updated memcpy_mcsafe() implementation to define copy_user_mcsafe() and copy_to_iter_mcsafe(). The most significant difference from typical copy_to_iter() is that the ITER_KVEC and ITER_BVEC iterator types can fail to complete a full transfer. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: hch@lst.de Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539239150.31796.9189779163576449784.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-15x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add write-protection-fault handlingDan Williams1-0/+3
In preparation for using memcpy_mcsafe() to handle user copies it needs to be to handle write-protection faults while writing user pages. Add MMU-fault handlers alongside the machine-check exception handlers. Note that the machine check fault exception handling makes assumptions about source buffer alignment and poison alignment. In the write fault case, given the destination buffer is arbitrarily aligned, it needs a separate / additional fault handling approach. The mcsafe_handle_tail() helper is reused. The @limit argument is set to @len since there is no safety concern about retriggering an MMU fault, and this simplifies the assembly. Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reported-by: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: hch@lst.de Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238635.31796.14056325365122961778.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-01-30x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospecDan Williams1-6/+6
Quoting Linus: I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends, but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_ accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache. __uaccess_begin_nospec() covers __get_user() and copy_from_iter() where the limit check is far away from the user pointer de-reference. In those cases a barrier_nospec() prevents speculation with a potential pointer to privileged memory. uaccess_try_nospec covers get_user_try. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: alan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727416953.33451.10508284228526170604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-09x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operationsDan Williams1-0/+11
The pmem driver has a need to transfer data with a persistent memory destination and be able to rely on the fact that the destination writes are not cached. It is sufficient for the writes to be flushed to a cpu-store-buffer (non-temporal / "movnt" in x86 terms), as we expect userspace to call fsync() to ensure data-writes have reached a power-fail-safe zone in the platform. The fsync() triggers a REQ_FUA or REQ_FLUSH to the pmem driver which will turn around and fence previous writes with an "sfence". Implement a __copy_from_user_inatomic_flushcache, memcpy_page_flushcache, and memcpy_flushcache, that guarantee that the destination buffer is not dirty in the cpu cache on completion. The new copy_from_iter_flushcache and sub-routines will be used to replace the "pmem api" (include/linux/pmem.h + arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h). The availability of copy_from_iter_flushcache() and memcpy_flushcache() are gated by the CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE config symbol, and fallback to copy_from_iter_nocache() and plain memcpy() otherwise. This is meant to satisfy the concern from Linus that if a driver wants to do something beyond the normal nocache semantics it should be something private to that driver [1], and Al's concern that anything uaccess related belongs with the rest of the uaccess code [2]. The first consumer of this interface is a new 'copy_from_iter' dax operation so that pmem can inject cache maintenance operations without imposing this overhead on other dax-capable drivers. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-January/008364.html [2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-April/009942.html Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-03-29x86: switch to RAW_COPY_USERAl Viro1-40/+5
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-03-29x86: don't wank with magical size in __copy_in_user()Al Viro1-56/+2
... especially since copy_in_user() doesn't Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-03-28kill __copy_from_user_nocache()Al Viro1-8/+0
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-03-28amd64: get rid of zeroingAl Viro1-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-03-05uaccess: drop duplicate includes from asm/uaccess.hAl Viro1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-07-26x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopyKees Cook1-0/+2
Enables CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY checks on x86. This is done both in copy_*_user() and __copy_*_user() because copy_*_user() actually calls down to _copy_*_user() and not __copy_*_user(). Based on code from PaX and grsecurity. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
2016-05-20x86/kasan: instrument user memory access APIAndrey Ryabinin1-0/+7
Exchange between user and kernel memory is coded in assembly language. Which means that such accesses won't be spotted by KASAN as a compiler instruments only C code. Add explicit KASAN checks to user memory access API to ensure that userspace writes to (or reads from) a valid kernel memory. Note: Unlike others strncpy_from_user() is written mostly in C and KASAN sees memory accesses in it. However, it makes sense to add explicit check for all @count bytes that *potentially* could be written to the kernel. [aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: move kasan check under the condition] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462869209-21096-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462538722-1574-4-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-30x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_*Borislav Petkov1-1/+1
Move them to a separate header and have the following dependency: x86/cpufeatures.h <- x86/processor.h <- x86/cpufeature.h This makes it easier to use the header in asm code and not include the whole cpufeature.h and add guards for asm. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-12-17x86: reorganize SMAP handling in user space accessesLinus Torvalds1-28/+66
This reorganizes how we do the stac/clac instructions in the user access code. Instead of adding the instructions directly to the same inline asm that does the actual user level access and exception handling, add them at a higher level. This is mainly preparation for the next step, where we will expose an interface to allow users to mark several accesses together as being user space accesses, but it does already clean up some code: - the inlined trivial cases of copy_in_user() now do stac/clac just once over the accesses: they used to do one pair around the user space read, and another pair around the write-back. - the {get,put}_user_ex() macros that are used with the catch/try handling don't do any stac/clac at all, because that happens in the try/catch surrounding them. Other than those two cleanups that happened naturally from the re-organization, this should not make any difference. Yet. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-08x86: clean up/fix 'copy_in_user()' tail zeroingLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
The rule for 'copy_from_user()' is that it zeroes the remaining kernel buffer even when the copy fails halfway, just to make sure that we don't leave uninitialized kernel memory around. Because even if we check for errors, some kernel buffers stay around after thge copy (think page cache). However, the x86-64 logic for user copies uses a copy_user_generic() function for all the cases, that set the "zerorest" flag for any fault on the source buffer. Which meant that it didn't just try to clear the kernel buffer after a failure in copy_from_user(), it also tried to clear the destination user buffer for the "copy_in_user()" case. Not only is that pointless, it also means that the clearing code has to worry about the tail clearing taking page faults for the user buffer case. Which is just stupid, since that case shouldn't happen in the first place. Get rid of the whole "zerorest" thing entirely, and instead just check if the destination is in kernel space or not. And then just use memset() to clear the tail of the kernel buffer if necessary. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-04x86, sparse: Do not force removal of __user when calling copy_to/from_user_nocheck()Steven Rostedt1-2/+2
Commit ff47ab4ff3cdd "x86: Add 1/2/4/8 byte optimization to 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user_inatomic" added a "_nocheck" call in between the copy_to/from_user() and copy_user_generic(). As both the normal and nocheck versions of theses calls use the proper __user annotation, a typecast to remove it should not be added. This causes sparse to spin out the following warnings: arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces) arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: expected void const [noderef] <asn:1>*src arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: got void const *<noident> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces) arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: expected void const [noderef] <asn:1>*src arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: got void const *<noident> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces) arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: expected void const [noderef] <asn:1>*src arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: got void const *<noident> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces) arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: expected void const [noderef] <asn:1>*src arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:207:47: got void const *<noident> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140103164500.5f6478f5@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-11-12Merge branch 'x86-uaccess-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-6/+18
Pull x86 uaccess changes from Ingo Molnar: "A single change that micro-optimizes __copy_*_user_inatomic(), used by the futex code" * 'x86-uaccess-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Add 1/2/4/8 byte optimization to 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user_inatomic
2013-10-26x86: Unify copy_to_user() and add size checking to itJan Beulich1-10/+0
Similarly to copy_from_user(), where the range check is to protect against kernel memory corruption, copy_to_user() can benefit from such checking too: Here it protects against kernel information leaks. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5265059502000078000FC4F6@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2013-10-26x86: Unify copy_from_user() size checkingJan Beulich1-18/+0
Commits 4a3127693001c61a21d1ce680db6340623f52e93 ("x86: Turn the copy_from_user check into an (optional) compile time warning") and 63312b6a6faae3f2e5577f2b001e3b504f10a2aa ("x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors") touched only the 32-bit variant of copy_from_user(), whereas the original commit 9f0cf4adb6aa0bfccf675c938124e68f7f06349d ("x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()") also added the same code to the 64-bit one. Further the earlier conversion from an inline WARN() to the call to copy_from_user_overflow() went a little too far: When the number of bytes to be copied is not a constant (e.g. [looking at 3.11] in drivers/net/tun.c:__tun_chr_ioctl() or drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_inject.c:aer_inject_write()), the compiler will always have to keep the funtion call, and hence there will always be a warning. By using __builtin_constant_p() we can avoid this. And then this slightly extends the effect of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS in that apart from converting warnings to errors in the constant size case, it retains the (possibly wrong) warnings in the non-constant size case, such that if someone is prepared to get a few false positives, (s)he'll be able to recover the current behavior (except that these diagnostics now will never be converted to errors). Since the 32-bit variant (intentionally) didn't call might_fault(), the unification results in this being called twice now. Adding a suitable #ifdef would be the alternative if that's a problem. I'd like to point out though that with __compiletime_object_size() being restricted to gcc before 4.6, the whole construct is going to become more and more pointless going forward. I would question however that commit 2fb0815c9ee6b9ac50e15dd8360ec76d9fa46a2 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+") was really necessary, and instead this should have been dealt with as is done here from the beginning. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5265056D02000078000FC4F3@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-10x86: Add 1/2/4/8 byte optimization to 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user_inatomicAndi Kleen1-6/+18
The 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user_inatomic always called copy_from_user_generic, but skipped the special optimizations for 1/2/4/8 byte accesses. This especially hurts the futex call, which accesses the 4 byte futex user value with a complicated fast string operation in a function call, instead of a single movl. Use __copy_{from,to}_user for _inatomic instead to get the same optimizations. The only problem was the might_fault() in those functions. So move that to new wrapper and call __copy_{f,t}_user_nocheck() from *_inatomic directly. 32bit already did this correctly by duplicating the code. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376687844-19857-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-05-28x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/Michael S. Tsirkin1-1/+1
The only reason uaccess routines might sleep is if they fault. Make this explicit. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369577426-26721-9-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-21x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_userH. Peter Anvin1-3/+0
The prototypes for clear_user() and __clear_user() are identical in the 32- and 64-bit headers. No functionality change. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-8-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-06-29x86/copy_user_generic: Optimize copy_user_generic with CPU erms featureFenghua Yu1-1/+10
According to Intel 64 and IA-32 SDM and Optimization Reference Manual, beginning with Ivybridge, REG string operation using MOVSB and STOSB can provide both flexible and high-performance REG string operations in cases like memory copy. Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/ STOSB). If CPU erms feature is detected, patch copy_user_generic with enhanced fast string version of copy_user_generic. A few new macros are defined to reduce duplicate code in ALTERNATIVE and ALTERNATIVE_2. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337908785-14015-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-26x86: use the new generic strnlen_user() functionLinus Torvalds1-3/+0
This throws away the old x86-specific functions in favor of the generic optimized version. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-11x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it upLinus Torvalds1-4/+0
This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user() by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at a time. Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason). Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it adds, due to the de-duplication. Also, we no longer export (or define) the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and the user address space checks are built in to the new code. Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the address space. Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usageLinus Torvalds1-1/+0
Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather obscure header file dependency. So this fixes things up a bit, using grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]') grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]') to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h> inclusion, or have it despite not needing it. There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets many core ones. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-28Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-1/+20
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Mark atomic irq ops raw for 32bit legacy x86: Merge show_regs() x86: Macroise x86 cache descriptors x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements x86: Merge asm/atomic_{32,64}.h x86: Sync asm/atomic_32.h and asm/atomic_64.h x86: Split atomic64_t functions into seperate headers x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_* x86, core: Optimize hweight32()
2010-01-05x86: copy_from_user() should not return -EFAULTHeiko Carstens1-3/+2
Callers of copy_from_user() expect it to return the number of bytes it could not copy. In no case it is supposed to return -EFAULT. In case of a detected buffer overflow just return the requested length. In addition one could think of a memset that would clear the size of the target object. [ hpa: code is not in .32 so not needed for -stable ] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100105131911.GC5480@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-30x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanismJan Beulich1-1/+20
In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than implementing copy_user_generic() as a function consisting of just a single (possibly patched) branch, instead properly deal with patching call instructions in the alternative instructions framework, and move the patching into the callers. As a follow-on, one could also introduce something like __EXPORT_SYMBOL_ALT() to avoid patching call sites in modules. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8180200007800026AE7@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-16x86: Add missing might_fault() checks to copy_{to,from}_user()Frederic Weisbecker1-1/+9
On x86-64, copy_[to|from]_user() rely on assembly routines that never call might_fault(), making us missing various lockdep checks. This doesn't apply to __copy_from,to_user() that explicitly handle these calls, neither is it a problem in x86-32 where copy_to,from_user() rely on the "__" prefixed versions that also call might_fault(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1258382538-30979-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ v2: fix module export ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-15x86-64: __copy_from_user_inatomic() adjustmentsJan Beulich1-2/+5
This v2.6.26 commit: ad2fc2c: x86: fix copy_user on x86 rendered __copy_from_user_inatomic() identical to copy_user_generic(), yet didn't make the former just call the latter from an inline function. Furthermore, this v2.6.19 commit: b885808: [PATCH] Add proper sparse __user casts to __copy_to_user_inatomic converted the return type of __copy_to_user_inatomic() from unsigned long to int, but didn't do the same to __copy_from_user_inatomic(). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4AFD5778020000780001F8F4@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-26x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()Arjan van de Ven1-1/+18
gcc (4.x) supports the __builtin_object_size() builtin, which reports the size of an object that a pointer point to, when known at compile time. If the buffer size is not known at compile time, a constant -1 is returned. This patch uses this feature to add a sanity check to copy_from_user(); if the target buffer is known to be smaller than the copy size, the copy is aborted and a WARNing is emitted in memory debug mode. These extra checks compile away when the object size is not known, or if both the buffer size and the copy length are constants. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090926143301.2c396b94@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-20x86: Fix movq immediate operand constraints in uaccess_64.hUros Bizjak1-5/+5
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h uses wrong asm operand constraint ("ir") for movq insn. Since movq sign-extends its immediate operand, "er" constraint should be used instead. Attached patch changes all uses of __put_user_asm in uaccess_64.h to use "er" when "q" insn suffix is involved. Patch was compile tested on x86_64 with defconfig. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-03-02x86, mm: dont use non-temporal stores in pagecache accessesIngo Molnar1-18/+7
Impact: standardize IO on cached ops On modern CPUs it is almost always a bad idea to use non-temporal stores, as the regression in this commit has shown it: 30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall The kernel simply has no good information about whether using non-temporal stores is a good idea or not - and trying to add heuristics only increases complexity and inserts fragility. The regression on cached write()s took very long to be found - over two years. So dont take any chances and let the hardware decide how it makes use of its caches. The only exception is drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: there were we are absolutely sure that another entity (the GPU) will pick up the dirty data immediately and that the CPU will not touch that data before the GPU will. Also, keep the _nocache() primitives to make it easier for people to experiment with these details. There may be more clear-cut cases where non-cached copies can be used, outside of filemap.c. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25x86: usercopy: check for total size when deciding non-temporal cutoffIngo Molnar1-2/+2
Impact: make more types of copies non-temporal This change makes the following simple fix: 30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall A bit more sophisticated: we check the 'total' number of bytes written to decide whether to copy in a cached or a non-temporal way. This will for example cause the tail (modulo 4096 bytes) chunk of a large write() to be non-temporal too - not just the page-sized chunks. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()Ingo Molnar1-3/+2
Impact: cleanup, enable future change Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(), and update all the callsites. The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or non-temporal. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24x86: fix performance regression in write() syscallSalman Qazi1-2/+14
While the introduction of __copy_from_user_nocache (see commit: 0812a579c92fefa57506821fa08e90f47cb6dbdd) may have been an improvement for sufficiently large writes, there is evidence to show that it is deterimental for small writes. Unixbench's fstime test gives the following results for 256 byte writes with MAX_BLOCK of 2000: 2.6.29-rc6 ( 5 samples, each in KB/sec ): 283750, 295200, 294500, 293000, 293300 2.6.29-rc6 + this patch (5 samples, each in KB/sec): 313050, 3106750, 293350, 306300, 307900 2.6.18 395700, 342000, 399100, 366050, 359850 See w_test() in src/fstime.c in unixbench version 4.1.0. Basically, the above test consists of counting how much we can write in this manner: alarm(10); while (!sigalarm) { for (f_blocks = 0; f_blocks < 2000; ++f_blocks) { write(f, buf, 256); } lseek(f, 0L, 0); } Note, there are other components to the write syscall regression that are not addressed here. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24Merge branches 'core/debug', 'core/futexes', 'core/locking', 'core/rcu', 'core/signal', 'core/urgent' and 'core/xen' into core/coreIngo Molnar1-0/+6
2008-11-18x86: uaccess_64: fix return value in __copy_from_user()Hiroshi Shimamoto1-1/+1
__copy_from_user() will return invalid value 16 when it fails to access user space and the size is 10. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into core/lockingIngo Molnar1-0/+208
Conflicts: arch/um/include/asm/system.h
2008-10-22x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guardsH. Peter Anvin1-3/+3
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22x86, um: ... and asm-x86 moveAl Viro1-0/+202
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>