History log of /linux-master/arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7e6b9db2 15-Jun-2022 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

jump_label: make initial NOP patching the special case

Instead of defaulting to patching NOP opcodes at init time, and leaving
it to the architectures to override this if this is not needed, switch
to a model where doing nothing is the default. This is the common case
by far, as only MIPS requires NOP patching at init time. On all other
architectures, the correct encodings are emitted by the compiler and so
no initial patching is needed.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615154142.1574619-4-ardb@kernel.org


# 78b92c73 09-Jun-2021 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

arm64: insn: decouple patching from insn code

Currently, <asm/insn.h> includes <asm/patching.h>. We intend that
<asm/insn.h> will be usable from userspace, so it doesn't make sense to
include headers for kernel-only features such as the patching routines,
and we'd intended to restrict <asm/insn.h> to instruction encoding
details.

Let's decouple the patching code from <asm/insn.h>, and explicitly
include <asm/patching.h> where it is needed. Since <asm/patching.h>
isn't included from assembly, we can drop the __ASSEMBLY__ guards.

At the same time, sort the kprobes includes so that it's easier to see
what is and isn't incldued.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609102301.17332-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>


# caab277b 02-Jun-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation this program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# e9666d10 30-Dec-2018 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig

Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:

#if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) && defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
# define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
#endif

We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.

Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>


# c296146c 19-Sep-2018 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

arm64/kernel: jump_label: Switch to relative references

On a randomly chosen distro kernel build for arm64, vmlinux.o shows the
following sections, containing jump label entries, and the associated
RELA relocation records, respectively:

...
[38088] __jump_table PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00e19f30
000000000002ea10 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
[38089] .rela__jump_table RELA 0000000000000000 01fd8bb0
000000000008be30 0000000000000018 I 38178 38088 8
...

In other words, we have 190 KB worth of 'struct jump_entry' instances,
and 573 KB worth of RELA entries to relocate each entry's code, target
and key members. This means the RELA section occupies 10% of the .init
segment, and the two sections combined represent 5% of vmlinux's entire
memory footprint.

So let's switch from 64-bit absolute references to 32-bit relative
references for the code and target field, and a 64-bit relative
reference for the 'key' field (which may reside in another module or the
core kernel, which may be more than 4 GB way on arm64 when running with
KASLR enable): this reduces the size of the __jump_table by 33%, and
gets rid of the RELA section entirely.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919065144.25010-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org


# f6cc0c50 16-Aug-2018 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

arm64: Avoid calling stop_machine() when patching jump labels

Patching a jump label involves patching a single instruction at a time,
swizzling between a branch and a NOP. The architecture treats these
instructions specially, so a concurrently executing CPU is guaranteed to
see either the NOP or the branch, rather than an amalgamation of the two
instruction encodings.

However, in order to guarantee that the new instruction is visible, it
is necessary to send an IPI to the concurrently executing CPU so that it
discards any previously fetched instructions from its pipeline. This
operation therefore cannot be completed from a context with IRQs
disabled, but this is exactly what happens on the jump label path where
the hotplug lock is held and irqs are subsequently disabled by
stop_machine_cpuslocked(). This results in a deadlock during boot on
Hikey-960.

Due to the architectural guarantees around patching NOPs and branches,
we don't actually need to stop_machine() at all on the jump label path,
so we can avoid the deadlock by using the "nosync" variant of our
instruction patching routine.

Fixes: 693350a79980 ("arm64: insn: Don't fallback on nosync path for general insn patching")
Reported-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi>
Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com>
Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>


# 76b235c6 24-Jul-2015 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

jump_label: Rename JUMP_LABEL_{EN,DIS}ABLE to JUMP_LABEL_{JMP,NOP}

Since we've already stepped away from ENABLE is a JMP and DISABLE is a
NOP with the branch_default bits, and are going to make it even worse,
rename it to make it all clearer.

This way we don't mix multiple levels of logic attributes, but have a
plain 'physical' name for what the current instruction patching status
of a jump label is.

This is a first step in removing the naming confusion that has led to
a stream of avoidable bugs such as:

a833581e372a ("x86, perf: Fix static_key bug in load_mm_cr4()")

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Beefed up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 6ddae418 25-Nov-2014 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

arm64: jump labels: NOP out NOP -> NOP replacement

In the arm64 arch_static_branch implementation we place an A64 NOP into
the instruction stream and log relevant details to a jump_entry in a
__jump_table section. Later this may be replaced with an immediate
branch without link to the code for the unlikely case.

At init time, the core calls arch_jump_label_transform_static to
initialise the NOPs. On x86 this involves inserting the optimal NOP for
a given microarchitecture, but on arm64 we only use the architectural
NOP, and hence replace each NOP with the exact same NOP. This is
somewhat pointless.

Additionally, at module load time we don't call jump_label_apply_nops to
patch the optimal NOPs in, unlike other architectures, but get away with
this because we only use the architectural NOP anyway. A later notifier
will patch NOPs with branches as required.

Similarly to x86 commit 11570da1c5b1dee1 (x86/jump-label: Do not bother
updating NOPs if they are correct), we can avoid patching NOPs with
identical NOPs. Given that we only use a single NOP encoding, this means
we can NOP-out the body of arch_jump_label_transform_static entirely. As
the default __weak arch_jump_label_transform_static implementation
performs a patch, we must use an empty function to achieve this.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>


# 9732cafd 07-Jan-2014 Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>

arm64, jump label: optimize jump label implementation

Optimize jump label implementation for ARM64 by dynamically patching
kernel text.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>