Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/mmu: Add mm-based PASID refcounting

From: Fenghua Yu
Date: Wed Sep 29 2021 - 14:07:40 EST


Hi, Tony,

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:41:42AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:15:53PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29 2021 at 09:59, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > On 9/29/21 05:28, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > >> Looking at that patch again, none of this muck in fpu__pasid_write() is
> > >> required at all. The whole exception fixup is:
> > >>
> > >> if (!user_mode(regs))
> > >> return false;
> > >>
> > >> if (!current->mm->pasid)
> > >> return false;
> > >>
> > >> if (current->pasid_activated)
> > >> return false;
> > >
> > > <-- preemption or BH here: kaboom.
> >
> > Sigh, this had obviously to run in the early portion of #GP, i.e. before
> > enabling interrupts.
>
> Like this? Obviously with some comment about why this is being done.
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> index a58800973aed..a848a59291e7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -536,6 +536,12 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_ERRORCODE(exc_general_protection)
> unsigned long gp_addr;
> int ret;
>

Add
+#ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT
because mm->pasid and current-pasid_activated are defined only if
CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT is defined.

> + if (user_mode(regs) && current->mm->pasid && !current->pasid_activated) {

Maybe need to add "&& cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_ENQCMD)" because
the IA32_PASID MSR is only used when ENQCMD is enabled?

> + current->pasid_activated = 1;
> + wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_PASID, current->mm->pasid | MSR_IA32_PASID_VALID);
> + return;
> + }
> +

+endif

> cond_local_irq_enable(regs);
>
> if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_UMIP)) {

Thanks.

-Fenghua