The s390 architecture defines two special per-CPU data pages
called the "prefix area". In s390-linux terminology this is usually
called "lowcore". This memory area contains system configuration
data like old/new PSW's for system call/interrupt/machine check
handlers and lots of other data. It is normally mapped to logical
address 0. This area can only be accessed when in supervisor mode.
This means that kernel code can dereference NULL pointers, because
accesses to address 0 are allowed. Parts of lowcore can be write
protected, but read accesses and write accesses outside of the write
protected areas are not caught.
To remove this limitation for debugging and testing, remap lowcore to
another address and define a function get_lowcore() which simply
returns the address where lowcore is mapped at. This would normally
introduce a pointer dereference (=memory read). As lowcore is used
for several very often used variables, add code to patch this function
during runtime, so we avoid the memory reads.
For C code get_lowcore() has to be used, for assembly code it is
the GET_LC macro. When using this macro/function a reference is added
to alternative patching. All these locations will be patched to the
actual lowcore location when the kernel is booted or a module is loaded.
To make debugging/bisecting problems easier, this patch adds all the
infrastructure but the lowcore address is still hardwired to 0. This
way the code can be converted on a per function basis, and the
functionality is enabled in a patch after all the functions have
been converted.
Note that this requires at least z16 because the old lpsw instruction
only allowed a 12 bit displacement. z16 introduced lpswey which allows
20 bits (signed), so the lowcore can effectively be mapped from
address 0 - 0x7e000. To use 0x7e000 as address, a 6 byte lgfi
instruction would have to be used in the alternative. To save two
bytes, llilh can be used, but this only allows to set bits 16-31 of
the address. In order to use the llilh instruction, use 0x70000 as
alternative lowcore address. This is still large enough to catch
NULL pointer dereferences into large arrays.
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
The alternative and the normal facility list are always identical. Remove
the alternative facility list, which allows to simplify the alternatives
code.
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
The nospec implementation is deeply integrated into the alternatives
code: only for nospec an alternative facility list is implemented and
used by the alternative code, while it is modified by nospec specific
needs.
Push down the nospec alternative handling into the nospec by
introducing a new alternative type and a specific nospec callback to
decide if alternatives should be applied.
Also introduce a new global nobp variable which together with facility
82 can be used to decide if nobp is enabled or not.
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Add the required code to patch alternatives early in the decompressor.
This is required for the upcoming lowcore relocation changes, where
alternatives for facility 193 need to get patched before lowcore
alternatives.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Rework alternatives to allow for callbacks. With this every
alternative entry has additional data encoded:
- When (aka context) an alternative is supposed to be applied
- The type of an alternative, which allows for type specific handling
and callbacks
- Extra type specific payload (patch information), which can be passed
to callbacks in order to decide if an alternative should be applied
or not
With this only the "late" context is implemented, which means there is
no change to the previous behaviour. All code is just converted to the
more generic new infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Move all text sync functions from alternative.c to processor.c. This
way there is only minimal code left in alternative.c left, which is a
prerequisite to use the C file within boot code as well.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
The alternative code is using the words facility and feature for the
same. Rename facility to more generic feature everywhere to have
consistent naming.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
The current Kernel doesn't boot without alternative patching on
z16 machines. To avoid such bugs in the future, remove the option
disable alternative patching.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
__apply_alternatives() contains a runtime check which verifies that the
size of the to be patched code area is even. Convert this to a compile time
check using a similar ".org" trick, which is already used to verify that
old and new code areas have the same size.
Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
clang fails to handle ".if" statements in inline assembly which are heavily
used in the alternatives code.
To work around this remove this code, and enforce that users of
alternatives must specify original and alternative instruction sequences
which have identical sizes. Add a compile time check with two ".org"
statements similar to arm64.
In result not only clang can handle this, but also quite a lot of code can
be removed.
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1356
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511120532.2228616-3-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Introduce a text_poke_sync() similar to what x86 has. This can be
used to execute a serializing instruction on all CPUs (including
the current one).
Note: according to the Principles of Operation an IPI (= interrupt)
will already serialize a CPU, however it is better to be explicit. In
addition on_each_cpu() makes sure that also the current CPU get
serialized - just to make sure that possible preemption can prevent
some theoretical case where a CPU will not be serialized.
Therefore text_poke_sync() has to be used whenever code got modified,
just to avoid to rely on implicit serialization.
Also introduce text_poke_sync_lock() which will also disable CPU
hotplug, to prevent that any CPU is just going online with a
prefetched old version of a modified instruction.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
With gcc-11, there are a lot of warnings because the facility functions
are accessing lowcore through a null pointer. Fix this by moving the
facility arrays away from lowcore.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Automatically decide between nobp vs. expolines if the spectre_v2=auto
kernel parameter is specified or CONFIG_EXPOLINE_AUTO=y is set.
The decision made at boot time due to CONFIG_EXPOLINE_AUTO=y being set
can be overruled with the nobp, nospec and spectre_v2 kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Keep the code for the nobp parameter handling with the code for
expolines. Both are related to the spectre v2 mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add the PPA instruction to the system entry and exit path to switch
the kernel to a different branch prediction behaviour. The instructions
are added via CPU alternatives and can be disabled with the "nospec"
or the "nobp=0" kernel parameter. If the default behaviour selected
with CONFIG_KERNEL_NOBP is set to "n" then the "nobp=1" parameter can be
used to enable the changed kernel branch prediction.
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To be able to switch off specific CPU alternatives with kernel parameters
make a copy of the facility bit mask provided by STFLE and use the copy
for the decision to apply an alternative.
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add the correct SPDX license to a few more files under arch/s390 and
drivers/s390 which have been missed to far.
The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used
instead of the full boiler plate text.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer
instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability.
A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching.
Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although
ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr)
is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be
done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done:
1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long,
2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length.
alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility);
alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2);
Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop
or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes.
.altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of
__init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
