Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] x86/asm: Cleanup prefetch primitives

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 01:48:59 EST



* Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> This is based on a patch originally by hpa.
>
> With the current improvements to the alternatives, we can simply use %P1
> as a mem8 operand constraint and rely on the toolchain to generate the
> proper instruction sizes. For example, on 32-bit, where we use an empty
> old instruction we get:
>
> apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c104648b, len: 4), repl: (c195566c, len: 4)
> c104648b: alt_insn: 90 90 90 90
> c195566c: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 4b 5c
>
> ...
>
> apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c18e09b4, len: 3), repl: (c1955948, len: 3)
> c18e09b4: alt_insn: 90 90 90
> c1955948: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 08
>
> ...
>
> apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c1190cf9, len: 7), repl: (c1955a79, len: 7)
> c1190cf9: alt_insn: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
> c1955a79: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 0d a0 d4 85 c1
>
> all with the proper padding done depending on the size of the
> replacement instruction the compiler generates.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 16 +++++++---------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 5 +++++
> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
> index efc3b22d896e..8118e94d50ab 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static inline void native_apic_mem_write(u32 reg, u32 v)
> {
> volatile u32 *addr = (volatile u32 *)(APIC_BASE + reg);
>
> - alternative_io("movl %0, %1", "xchgl %0, %1", X86_BUG_11AP,
> + alternative_io("movl %0, %P1", "xchgl %0, %P1", X86_BUG_11AP,
> ASM_OUTPUT2("=r" (v), "=m" (*addr)),
> ASM_OUTPUT2("0" (v), "m" (*addr)));
> }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> index ec1c93588cef..7be2c9a6caba 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -761,10 +761,10 @@ extern char ignore_fpu_irq;
> #define ARCH_HAS_SPINLOCK_PREFETCH
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> -# define BASE_PREFETCH ASM_NOP4
> +# define BASE_PREFETCH ""
> # define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
> #else
> -# define BASE_PREFETCH "prefetcht0 (%1)"
> +# define BASE_PREFETCH "prefetcht0 %P1"
> #endif
>
> /*
> @@ -775,10 +775,9 @@ extern char ignore_fpu_irq;
> */
> static inline void prefetch(const void *x)
> {
> - alternative_input(BASE_PREFETCH,
> - "prefetchnta (%1)",
> + alternative_input(BASE_PREFETCH, "prefetchnta %P1",
> X86_FEATURE_XMM,
> - "r" (x));
> + "m" (*(const char *)x));
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -788,10 +787,9 @@ static inline void prefetch(const void *x)
> */
> static inline void prefetchw(const void *x)
> {
> - alternative_input(BASE_PREFETCH,
> - "prefetchw (%1)",
> - X86_FEATURE_3DNOW,
> - "r" (x));
> + alternative_input(BASE_PREFETCH, "prefetchw %P1",
> + X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH,
> + "m" (*(const char *)x));
> }
>
> static inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *x)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> index a220239cea65..dd9e50500297 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> @@ -711,6 +711,11 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_AMD_APIC_C1E);
>
> rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, &c->microcode, &dummy);
> +
> + /* 3DNow or LM implies PREFETCHW */
> + if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH))
> + if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOW) || cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_LM))
> + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH);
> }
>

For future reference: you forgot to declare the cpu/amd.c
X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH enablement change in the changelog.
I guess you noticed it during testing and forgot about it?

Thanks,

Ingo
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