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x86: don't use REP_GOOD or ERMS for user memory clearing
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The modern target to use is FSRS (Fast Short REP STOS), and the other
cases should only be used for bigger areas (ie mainly things like page
clearing).

Note! This changes the conditional for the inlining from FSRM ("fast
short rep movs") to FSRS ("fast short rep stos").

We'll have a separate fixup for AMD microarchitectures that have a good
'rep stosb' yet do not set the new Intel-specific FSRS bit (because FSRM
was there first).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds committed Apr 19, 2023
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14 changes: 3 additions & 11 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
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Expand Up @@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ __copy_from_user_flushcache(void *dst, const void __user *src, unsigned size)

__must_check unsigned long
clear_user_original(void __user *addr, unsigned long len);
__must_check unsigned long
clear_user_rep_good(void __user *addr, unsigned long len);
__must_check unsigned long
clear_user_erms(void __user *addr, unsigned long len);

static __always_inline __must_check unsigned long __clear_user(void __user *addr, unsigned long size)
{
Expand All @@ -97,16 +93,12 @@ static __always_inline __must_check unsigned long __clear_user(void __user *addr
*/
asm volatile(
"1:\n\t"
ALTERNATIVE_3("rep stosb",
"call clear_user_erms", ALT_NOT(X86_FEATURE_FSRM),
"call clear_user_rep_good", ALT_NOT(X86_FEATURE_ERMS),
"call clear_user_original", ALT_NOT(X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD))
ALTERNATIVE("rep stosb",
"call clear_user_original", ALT_NOT(X86_FEATURE_FSRS))
"2:\n"
_ASM_EXTABLE_UA(1b, 2b)
: "+c" (size), "+D" (addr), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
: "a" (0)
/* rep_good clobbers %rdx */
: "rdx");
: "a" (0));

clac();

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75 changes: 0 additions & 75 deletions arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S
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Expand Up @@ -113,78 +113,3 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(clear_user_original)
_ASM_EXTABLE_UA(.Lbytes, .Lbytes_exception)
SYM_FUNC_END(clear_user_original)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_original)

/*
* Alternative clear user-space when CPU feature X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD is
* present.
* Input:
* rdi destination
* rcx count
*
* Output:
* rcx: uncleared bytes or 0 if successful.
*/
SYM_FUNC_START(clear_user_rep_good)
# call the original thing for less than a cacheline
cmp $64, %rcx
jb clear_user_original

.Lprep:
# copy lower 32-bits for rest bytes
mov %ecx, %edx
shr $3, %rcx
jz .Lrep_good_rest_bytes

.Lrep_good_qwords:
rep stosq

.Lrep_good_rest_bytes:
and $7, %edx
jz .Lrep_good_exit

.Lrep_good_bytes:
mov %edx, %ecx
rep stosb

.Lrep_good_exit:
# see .Lexit comment above
xor %eax, %eax
RET

.Lrep_good_qwords_exception:
# convert remaining qwords back into bytes to return to caller
shl $3, %rcx
and $7, %edx
add %rdx, %rcx
jmp .Lrep_good_exit

_ASM_EXTABLE_UA(.Lrep_good_qwords, .Lrep_good_qwords_exception)
_ASM_EXTABLE_UA(.Lrep_good_bytes, .Lrep_good_exit)
SYM_FUNC_END(clear_user_rep_good)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_rep_good)

/*
* Alternative clear user-space when CPU feature X86_FEATURE_ERMS is present.
* Input:
* rdi destination
* rcx count
*
* Output:
* rcx: uncleared bytes or 0 if successful.
*
*/
SYM_FUNC_START(clear_user_erms)
# call the original thing for less than a cacheline
cmp $64, %rcx
jb clear_user_original

.Lerms_bytes:
rep stosb

.Lerms_exit:
xorl %eax,%eax
RET

_ASM_EXTABLE_UA(.Lerms_bytes, .Lerms_exit)
SYM_FUNC_END(clear_user_erms)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_erms)
2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions tools/objtool/check.c
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Expand Up @@ -1284,8 +1284,6 @@ static const char *uaccess_safe_builtin[] = {
"copy_mc_fragile_handle_tail",
"copy_mc_enhanced_fast_string",
"ftrace_likely_update", /* CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING */
"clear_user_erms",
"clear_user_rep_good",
"clear_user_original",
NULL
};
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