[PATCH v2 0/8] CR4 handling improvements

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Oct 24 2014 - 18:58:31 EST


This little series tightens up rdpmc permissions. With it applied,
rdpmc can only be used if a perf_event is actually mmapped. For now,
this is only really useful for seccomp.

At some point this could be further tightened up to only allow rdpmc
if an actual self-monitoring perf event that is compatible with
rdpmc is mapped.

This should add <50ns to context switches between rdpmc-capable and
rdpmc-non-capable mms. I suspect that this is well under 10%
overhead, given that perf already adds some context switch latency.

I think that patches 1-3 are a good idea regardless of any rdpmc changes.

AMD Uncore userspace rdpmc is broken by these patches (cap_user_rdpmc
will be zero), but it was broken anyway.

Changes from v1 (aka RFC):
- Rebased on top of the KVM CR4 fix. This applies to a very recent -linus.
- Renamed the cr4 helpers (Peter, Borislav)
- Fixed buggy cr4 helpers (Hilf)
- Improved lots of comments (everyone)
- Renamed read_cr4 and write_cr4 to make sure I didn't miss anything.
(NB: This will introduce conflicts with Andi's FSGSBASE work. This is
a good thing.)

Andy Lutomirski (7):
x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping
perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage
x86, perf: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped
x86, perf: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks

Peter Zijlstra (1):
perf: Clean up pmu::event_idx

arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c | 6 ---
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c | 6 ---
arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c | 6 ---
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h | 2 +
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 32 ++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 6 +--
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 33 ----------------
arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 6 +--
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/include/asm/virtext.h | 5 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 17 +++++---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p5.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.c | 6 +--
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 6 +--
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h | 2 +
arch/x86/kernel/head32.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 2 +
arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 5 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 10 ++---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/init.c | 12 +++++-
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 3 --
arch/x86/power/cpu.c | 11 ++----
arch/x86/realmode/init.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 4 +-
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c | 4 +-
include/linux/perf_event.h | 7 ++++
kernel/events/core.c | 29 ++++++--------
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 7 ----
39 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)

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