Re: [PATCH v4 18/36] arm64/gcs: Context switch GCS state for EL0

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 11:00:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> @@ -271,12 +272,31 @@ static void flush_tagged_addr_state(void)
>  		clear_thread_flag(TIF_TAGGED_ADDR);
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_GCS
> +
> +static void flush_gcs(void)
> +{
> +	if (system_supports_gcs()) {

Nitpick: use "if (system_supports_gcs()) return" when we have more than
a line in the conditional block (slightly more consistent with other
places).

> +		gcs_free(current);
> +		current->thread.gcs_el0_mode = 0;
> +		write_sysreg_s(0, SYS_GCSCRE0_EL1);
> +		write_sysreg_s(0, SYS_GCSPR_EL0);
> +	}
> +}

Do we need and isb() or there's one on this path? If it's only EL0
making use of this register, we should be fine with the ERET before
returning to user. Not sure whether the kernel uses this, GCSSTTR
doesn't need it.

> +static void gcs_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
> +{
> +	if (!system_supports_gcs())
> +		return;
> +
> +	gcs_preserve_current_state();
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Ensure that GCS changes are observable by/from other PEs in
> +	 * case of migration.
> +	 */
> +	if (task_gcs_el0_enabled(current) || task_gcs_el0_enabled(next))
> +		gcsb_dsync();

What's this barrier for? The spec (at least the version I have) only
talks about accesses, nothing to do with the registers that we context
switch here.

-- 
Catalin