[PATCH RFC/RFT 2/4] riscv: Add a runtime detection of invalid TLB entries caching

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Thu Dec 07 2023 - 10:06:07 EST


This mechanism allows to completely bypass the sfence.vma introduced by
the previous commit for uarchs that do not cache invalid TLB entries.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 379403de6c6f..2e854613740c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ bool pgtable_l5_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_XIP_KER
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pgtable_l4_enabled);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pgtable_l5_enabled);

+bool tlb_caching_invalid_entries;
+
phys_addr_t phys_ram_base __ro_after_init;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(phys_ram_base);

@@ -750,6 +752,18 @@ static void __init disable_pgtable_l4(void)
satp_mode = SATP_MODE_39;
}

+static void __init enable_pgtable_l5(void)
+{
+ pgtable_l5_enabled = true;
+ satp_mode = SATP_MODE_57;
+}
+
+static void __init enable_pgtable_l4(void)
+{
+ pgtable_l4_enabled = true;
+ satp_mode = SATP_MODE_48;
+}
+
static int __init print_no4lvl(char *p)
{
pr_info("Disabled 4-level and 5-level paging");
@@ -826,6 +840,112 @@ static __init void set_satp_mode(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
memset(early_pud, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
memset(early_pmd, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
}
+
+/* Determine at runtime if the uarch caches invalid TLB entries */
+static __init void set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries(void)
+{
+#define NR_RETRIES_CACHING_INVALID_ENTRIES 50
+ uintptr_t set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd = ((unsigned long)set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries) & PMD_MASK;
+ // TODO the test_addr as defined below could go into another pud...
+ uintptr_t test_addr = set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd + 2 * PMD_SIZE;
+ pmd_t valid_pmd;
+ u64 satp;
+ int i = 0;
+
+ /* To ease the page table creation */
+ disable_pgtable_l5();
+ disable_pgtable_l4();
+
+ /* Establish a mapping for set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries() in sv39 */
+ create_pgd_mapping(early_pg_dir,
+ set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd,
+ (uintptr_t)early_pmd,
+ PGDIR_SIZE, PAGE_TABLE);
+
+ /* Handle the case where set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries straddles 2 PMDs */
+ create_pmd_mapping(early_pmd,
+ set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd,
+ set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd,
+ PMD_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+ create_pmd_mapping(early_pmd,
+ set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd + PMD_SIZE,
+ set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd + PMD_SIZE,
+ PMD_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+
+ /* Establish an invalid mapping */
+ create_pmd_mapping(early_pmd, test_addr, 0, PMD_SIZE, __pgprot(0));
+
+ /* Precompute the valid pmd here because the mapping for pfn_pmd() won't exist */
+ valid_pmd = pfn_pmd(PFN_DOWN(set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries_pmd), PAGE_KERNEL);
+
+ local_flush_tlb_all();
+ satp = PFN_DOWN((uintptr_t)&early_pg_dir) | SATP_MODE_39;
+ csr_write(CSR_SATP, satp);
+
+ /*
+ * Set stvec to after the trapping access, access this invalid mapping
+ * and legitimately trap
+ */
+ // TODO: Should I save the previous stvec?
+#define ASM_STR(x) __ASM_STR(x)
+ asm volatile(
+ "la a0, 1f \n"
+ "csrw " ASM_STR(CSR_TVEC) ", a0 \n"
+ "ld a0, 0(%0) \n"
+ ".align 2 \n"
+ "1: \n"
+ :
+ : "r" (test_addr)
+ : "a0"
+ );
+
+ /* Now establish a valid mapping to check if the invalid one is cached */
+ early_pmd[pmd_index(test_addr)] = valid_pmd;
+
+ /*
+ * Access the valid mapping multiple times: indeed, we can't use
+ * sfence.vma as a barrier to make sure the cpu did not reorder accesses
+ * so we may trap even if the uarch does not cache invalid entries. By
+ * trying a few times, we make sure that those uarchs will see the right
+ * mapping at some point.
+ */
+
+ i = NR_RETRIES_CACHING_INVALID_ENTRIES;
+
+#define ASM_STR(x) __ASM_STR(x)
+ asm_volatile_goto(
+ "la a0, 1f \n"
+ "csrw " ASM_STR(CSR_TVEC) ", a0 \n"
+ ".align 2 \n"
+ "1: \n"
+ "addi %0, %0, -1 \n"
+ "blt %0, zero, %l[caching_invalid_entries] \n"
+ "ld a0, 0(%1) \n"
+ :
+ : "r" (i), "r" (test_addr)
+ : "a0"
+ : caching_invalid_entries
+ );
+
+ csr_write(CSR_SATP, 0ULL);
+ local_flush_tlb_all();
+
+ /* If we don't trap, the uarch does not cache invalid entries! */
+ tlb_caching_invalid_entries = false;
+ goto clean;
+
+caching_invalid_entries:
+ csr_write(CSR_SATP, 0ULL);
+ local_flush_tlb_all();
+
+ tlb_caching_invalid_entries = true;
+clean:
+ memset(early_pg_dir, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ memset(early_pmd, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ enable_pgtable_l4();
+ enable_pgtable_l5();
+}
#endif

/*
@@ -1072,6 +1192,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
#endif

#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && !defined(CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL)
+ set_tlb_caching_invalid_entries();
set_satp_mode(dtb_pa);
#endif

@@ -1322,6 +1443,9 @@ static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
local_flush_tlb_all();

pt_ops_set_late();
+
+ pr_info("uarch caches invalid entries: %s",
+ tlb_caching_invalid_entries ? "yes" : "no");
}
#else
asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
--
2.39.2