The following commit has been merged into the x86/fsgsbase branch of tip: Commit-ID: 673903495c85137791d5820d690229efe09c8f7b Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/673903495c85137791d5820d690229efe09c8f7b Author: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:13:51 -04:00 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> CommitterDate: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:47:02 +02:00
x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available With the new FSGSBASE instructions, FS and GSABSE can be efficiently read and writen in __switch_to(). Use that capability to preserve the full state. This will enable user code to do whatever it wants with the new instructions without any kernel-induced gotchas. (There can still be architectural gotchas: movl %gs,%eax; movl %eax,%gs may change GSBASE if WRGSBASE was used, but users are expected to read the CPU manual before doing things like that.) This is a considerable speedup. It seems to save about 100 cycles per context switch compared to the baseline 4.6-rc1 behavior on a Skylake laptop. This is mostly due to avoiding the WRMSR operation. [ chang: 5~10% performance improvements were seen with a context switch benchmark that ran threads with different FS/GSBASE values (to the baseline 4.16). Minor edit on the changelog. ] [ tglx: Masaage changelog ] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] --- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index ef2f755..8ccc587 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -236,8 +236,18 @@ static __always_inline void save_fsgs(struct task_struct *task) { savesegment(fs, task->thread.fsindex); savesegment(gs, task->thread.gsindex); - save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.fsindex, FS); - save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.gsindex, GS); + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE)) { + /* + * If FSGSBASE is enabled, we can't make any useful guesses + * about the base, and user code expects us to save the current + * value. Fortunately, reading the base directly is efficient. + */ + task->thread.fsbase = rdfsbase(); + task->thread.gsbase = __rdgsbase_inactive(); + } else { + save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.fsindex, FS); + save_base_legacy(task, task->thread.gsindex, GS); + } } /* @@ -319,10 +329,22 @@ static __always_inline void load_seg_legacy(unsigned short prev_index, static __always_inline void x86_fsgsbase_load(struct thread_struct *prev, struct thread_struct *next) { - load_seg_legacy(prev->fsindex, prev->fsbase, - next->fsindex, next->fsbase, FS); - load_seg_legacy(prev->gsindex, prev->gsbase, - next->gsindex, next->gsbase, GS); + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE)) { + /* Update the FS and GS selectors if they could have changed. */ + if (unlikely(prev->fsindex || next->fsindex)) + loadseg(FS, next->fsindex); + if (unlikely(prev->gsindex || next->gsindex)) + loadseg(GS, next->gsindex); + + /* Update the bases. */ + wrfsbase(next->fsbase); + __wrgsbase_inactive(next->gsbase); + } else { + load_seg_legacy(prev->fsindex, prev->fsbase, + next->fsindex, next->fsbase, FS); + load_seg_legacy(prev->gsindex, prev->gsbase, + next->gsindex, next->gsbase, GS); + } } static unsigned long x86_fsgsbase_read_task(struct task_struct *task,
