arm64: vdso: Avoid ISB after reading from cntvct_el0

We can avoid the expensive ISB instruction after reading the counter in
the vDSO gettime functions by creating a fake address hazard against a
dummy stack read, just like we do inside the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210318170738.7756-5-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Will Deacon 2021-03-18 17:07:37 +00:00 committed by Catalin Marinas
parent 7adbf10e29
commit 77ec462536
3 changed files with 20 additions and 26 deletions

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@ -165,25 +165,6 @@ static inline void arch_timer_set_cntkctl(u32 cntkctl)
isb();
}
/*
* Ensure that reads of the counter are treated the same as memory reads
* for the purposes of ordering by subsequent memory barriers.
*
* This insanity brought to you by speculative system register reads,
* out-of-order memory accesses, sequence locks and Thomas Gleixner.
*
* http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-February/631195.html
*/
#define arch_counter_enforce_ordering(val) do { \
u64 tmp, _val = (val); \
\
asm volatile( \
" eor %0, %1, %1\n" \
" add %0, sp, %0\n" \
" ldr xzr, [%0]" \
: "=r" (tmp) : "r" (_val)); \
} while (0)
static __always_inline u64 __arch_counter_get_cntpct_stable(void)
{
u64 cnt;
@ -224,8 +205,6 @@ static __always_inline u64 __arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
return cnt;
}
#undef arch_counter_enforce_ordering
static inline int arch_timer_arch_init(void)
{
return 0;

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@ -70,6 +70,25 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_mask_nospec(unsigned long idx,
return mask;
}
/*
* Ensure that reads of the counter are treated the same as memory reads
* for the purposes of ordering by subsequent memory barriers.
*
* This insanity brought to you by speculative system register reads,
* out-of-order memory accesses, sequence locks and Thomas Gleixner.
*
* http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-February/631195.html
*/
#define arch_counter_enforce_ordering(val) do { \
u64 tmp, _val = (val); \
\
asm volatile( \
" eor %0, %1, %1\n" \
" add %0, sp, %0\n" \
" ldr xzr, [%0]" \
: "=r" (tmp) : "r" (_val)); \
} while (0)
#define __smp_mb() dmb(ish)
#define __smp_rmb() dmb(ishld)
#define __smp_wmb() dmb(ishst)

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@ -83,11 +83,7 @@ static __always_inline u64 __arch_get_hw_counter(s32 clock_mode,
*/
isb();
asm volatile("mrs %0, cntvct_el0" : "=r" (res) :: "memory");
/*
* This isb() is required to prevent that the seq lock is
* speculated.#
*/
isb();
arch_counter_enforce_ordering(res);
return res;
}