linux/tools
Linus Torvalds 8cb1ae19bf x86/fpu updates:
- Cleanup of extable fixup handling to be more robust, which in turn
    allows to make the FPU exception fixups more robust as well.
 
  - Change the return code for signal frame related failures from explicit
    error codes to a boolean fail/success as that's all what the calling
    code evaluates.
 
  - A large refactoring of the FPU code to prepare for adding AMX support:
 
    - Distangle the public header maze and remove especially the misnomed
      kitchen sink internal.h which is despite it's name included all over
      the place.
 
    - Add a proper abstraction for the register buffer storage (struct
      fpstate) which allows to dynamically size the buffer at runtime by
      flipping the pointer to the buffer container from the default
      container which is embedded in task_struct::tread::fpu to a
      dynamically allocated container with a larger register buffer.
 
    - Convert the code over to the new fpstate mechanism.
 
    - Consolidate the KVM FPU handling by moving the FPU related code into
      the FPU core which removes the number of exports and avoids adding
      even more export when AMX has to be supported in KVM. This also
      removes duplicated code which was of course unnecessary different and
      incomplete in the KVM copy.
 
    - Simplify the KVM FPU buffer handling by utilizing the new fpstate
      container and just switching the buffer pointer from the user space
      buffer to the KVM guest buffer when entering vcpu_run() and flipping
      it back when leaving the function. This cuts the memory requirements
      of a vCPU for FPU buffers in half and avoids pointless memory copy
      operations.
 
      This also solves the so far unresolved problem of adding AMX support
      because the current FPU buffer handling of KVM inflicted a circular
      dependency between adding AMX support to the core and to KVM.  With
      the new scheme of switching fpstate AMX support can be added to the
      core code without affecting KVM.
 
    - Replace various variables with proper data structures so the extra
      information required for adding dynamically enabled FPU features (AMX)
      can be added in one place
 
  - Add AMX (Advanved Matrix eXtensions) support (finally):
 
     AMX is a large XSTATE component which is going to be available with
     Saphire Rapids XEON CPUs. The feature comes with an extra MSR (MSR_XFD)
     which allows to trap the (first) use of an AMX related instruction,
     which has two benefits:
 
     1) It allows the kernel to control access to the feature
 
     2) It allows the kernel to dynamically allocate the large register
        state buffer instead of burdening every task with the the extra 8K
        or larger state storage.
 
     It would have been great to gain this kind of control already with
     AVX512.
 
     The support comes with the following infrastructure components:
 
     1) arch_prctl() to
        - read the supported features (equivalent to XGETBV(0))
        - read the permitted features for a task
        - request permission for a dynamically enabled feature
 
        Permission is granted per process, inherited on fork() and cleared
        on exec(). The permission policy of the kernel is restricted to
        sigaltstack size validation, but the syscall obviously allows
        further restrictions via seccomp etc.
 
     2) A stronger sigaltstack size validation for sys_sigaltstack(2) which
        takes granted permissions and the potentially resulting larger
        signal frame into account. This mechanism can also be used to
        enforce factual sigaltstack validation independent of dynamic
        features to help with finding potential victims of the 2K
        sigaltstack size constant which is broken since AVX512 support was
        added.
 
     3) Exception handling for #NM traps to catch first use of a extended
        feature via a new cause MSR. If the exception was caused by the use
        of such a feature, the handler checks permission for that
        feature. If permission has not been granted, the handler sends a
        SIGILL like the #UD handler would do if the feature would have been
        disabled in XCR0. If permission has been granted, then a new fpstate
        which fits the larger buffer requirement is allocated.
 
        In the unlikely case that this allocation fails, the handler sends
        SIGSEGV to the task. That's not elegant, but unavoidable as the
        other discussed options of preallocation or full per task
        permissions come with their own set of horrors for kernel and/or
        userspace. So this is the lesser of the evils and SIGSEGV caused by
        unexpected memory allocation failures is not a fundamentally new
        concept either.
 
        When allocation succeeds, the fpstate properties are filled in to
        reflect the extended feature set and the resulting sizes, the
        fpu::fpstate pointer is updated accordingly and the trap is disarmed
        for this task permanently.
 
     4) Enumeration and size calculations
 
     5) Trap switching via MSR_XFD
 
        The XFD (eXtended Feature Disable) MSR is context switched with the
        same life time rules as the FPU register state itself. The mechanism
        is keyed off with a static key which is default disabled so !AMX
        equipped CPUs have zero overhead. On AMX enabled CPUs the overhead
        is limited by comparing the tasks XFD value with a per CPU shadow
        variable to avoid redundant MSR writes. In case of switching from a
        AMX using task to a non AMX using task or vice versa, the extra MSR
        write is obviously inevitable.
 
        All other places which need to be aware of the variable feature sets
        and resulting variable sizes are not affected at all because they
        retrieve the information (feature set, sizes) unconditonally from
        the fpstate properties.
 
     6) Enable the new AMX states
 
   Note, this is relatively new code despite the fact that AMX support is in
   the works for more than a year now.
 
   The big refactoring of the FPU code, which allowed to do a proper
   integration has been started exactly 3 weeks ago. Refactoring of the
   existing FPU code and of the original AMX patches took a week and has
   been subject to extensive review and testing. The only fallout which has
   not been caught in review and testing right away was restricted to AMX
   enabled systems, which is completely irrelevant for anyone outside Intel
   and their early access program. There might be dragons lurking as usual,
   but so far the fine grained refactoring has held up and eventual yet
   undetected fallout is bisectable and should be easily addressable before
   the 5.16 release. Famous last words...
 
   Many thanks to Chang Bae and Dave Hansen for working hard on this and
   also to the various test teams at Intel who reserved extra capacity to
   follow the rapid development of this closely which provides the
   confidence level required to offer this rather large update for inclusion
   into 5.16-rc1.
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Merge tag 'x86-fpu-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 fpu updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Cleanup of extable fixup handling to be more robust, which in turn
   allows to make the FPU exception fixups more robust as well.

 - Change the return code for signal frame related failures from
   explicit error codes to a boolean fail/success as that's all what the
   calling code evaluates.

 - A large refactoring of the FPU code to prepare for adding AMX
   support:

      - Distangle the public header maze and remove especially the
        misnomed kitchen sink internal.h which is despite it's name
        included all over the place.

      - Add a proper abstraction for the register buffer storage (struct
        fpstate) which allows to dynamically size the buffer at runtime
        by flipping the pointer to the buffer container from the default
        container which is embedded in task_struct::tread::fpu to a
        dynamically allocated container with a larger register buffer.

      - Convert the code over to the new fpstate mechanism.

      - Consolidate the KVM FPU handling by moving the FPU related code
        into the FPU core which removes the number of exports and avoids
        adding even more export when AMX has to be supported in KVM.
        This also removes duplicated code which was of course
        unnecessary different and incomplete in the KVM copy.

      - Simplify the KVM FPU buffer handling by utilizing the new
        fpstate container and just switching the buffer pointer from the
        user space buffer to the KVM guest buffer when entering
        vcpu_run() and flipping it back when leaving the function. This
        cuts the memory requirements of a vCPU for FPU buffers in half
        and avoids pointless memory copy operations.

        This also solves the so far unresolved problem of adding AMX
        support because the current FPU buffer handling of KVM inflicted
        a circular dependency between adding AMX support to the core and
        to KVM. With the new scheme of switching fpstate AMX support can
        be added to the core code without affecting KVM.

      - Replace various variables with proper data structures so the
        extra information required for adding dynamically enabled FPU
        features (AMX) can be added in one place

 - Add AMX (Advanced Matrix eXtensions) support (finally):

   AMX is a large XSTATE component which is going to be available with
   Saphire Rapids XEON CPUs. The feature comes with an extra MSR
   (MSR_XFD) which allows to trap the (first) use of an AMX related
   instruction, which has two benefits:

    1) It allows the kernel to control access to the feature

    2) It allows the kernel to dynamically allocate the large register
       state buffer instead of burdening every task with the the extra
       8K or larger state storage.

   It would have been great to gain this kind of control already with
   AVX512.

   The support comes with the following infrastructure components:

    1) arch_prctl() to
        - read the supported features (equivalent to XGETBV(0))
        - read the permitted features for a task
        - request permission for a dynamically enabled feature

       Permission is granted per process, inherited on fork() and
       cleared on exec(). The permission policy of the kernel is
       restricted to sigaltstack size validation, but the syscall
       obviously allows further restrictions via seccomp etc.

    2) A stronger sigaltstack size validation for sys_sigaltstack(2)
       which takes granted permissions and the potentially resulting
       larger signal frame into account. This mechanism can also be used
       to enforce factual sigaltstack validation independent of dynamic
       features to help with finding potential victims of the 2K
       sigaltstack size constant which is broken since AVX512 support
       was added.

    3) Exception handling for #NM traps to catch first use of a extended
       feature via a new cause MSR. If the exception was caused by the
       use of such a feature, the handler checks permission for that
       feature. If permission has not been granted, the handler sends a
       SIGILL like the #UD handler would do if the feature would have
       been disabled in XCR0. If permission has been granted, then a new
       fpstate which fits the larger buffer requirement is allocated.

       In the unlikely case that this allocation fails, the handler
       sends SIGSEGV to the task. That's not elegant, but unavoidable as
       the other discussed options of preallocation or full per task
       permissions come with their own set of horrors for kernel and/or
       userspace. So this is the lesser of the evils and SIGSEGV caused
       by unexpected memory allocation failures is not a fundamentally
       new concept either.

       When allocation succeeds, the fpstate properties are filled in to
       reflect the extended feature set and the resulting sizes, the
       fpu::fpstate pointer is updated accordingly and the trap is
       disarmed for this task permanently.

    4) Enumeration and size calculations

    5) Trap switching via MSR_XFD

       The XFD (eXtended Feature Disable) MSR is context switched with
       the same life time rules as the FPU register state itself. The
       mechanism is keyed off with a static key which is default
       disabled so !AMX equipped CPUs have zero overhead. On AMX enabled
       CPUs the overhead is limited by comparing the tasks XFD value
       with a per CPU shadow variable to avoid redundant MSR writes. In
       case of switching from a AMX using task to a non AMX using task
       or vice versa, the extra MSR write is obviously inevitable.

       All other places which need to be aware of the variable feature
       sets and resulting variable sizes are not affected at all because
       they retrieve the information (feature set, sizes) unconditonally
       from the fpstate properties.

    6) Enable the new AMX states

   Note, this is relatively new code despite the fact that AMX support
   is in the works for more than a year now.

   The big refactoring of the FPU code, which allowed to do a proper
   integration has been started exactly 3 weeks ago. Refactoring of the
   existing FPU code and of the original AMX patches took a week and has
   been subject to extensive review and testing. The only fallout which
   has not been caught in review and testing right away was restricted
   to AMX enabled systems, which is completely irrelevant for anyone
   outside Intel and their early access program. There might be dragons
   lurking as usual, but so far the fine grained refactoring has held up
   and eventual yet undetected fallout is bisectable and should be
   easily addressable before the 5.16 release. Famous last words...

   Many thanks to Chang Bae and Dave Hansen for working hard on this and
   also to the various test teams at Intel who reserved extra capacity
   to follow the rapid development of this closely which provides the
   confidence level required to offer this rather large update for
   inclusion into 5.16-rc1

* tag 'x86-fpu-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
  Documentation/x86: Add documentation for using dynamic XSTATE features
  x86/fpu: Include vmalloc.h for vzalloc()
  selftests/x86/amx: Add context switch test
  selftests/x86/amx: Add test cases for AMX state management
  x86/fpu/amx: Enable the AMX feature in 64-bit mode
  x86/fpu: Add XFD handling for dynamic states
  x86/fpu: Calculate the default sizes independently
  x86/fpu/amx: Define AMX state components and have it used for boot-time checks
  x86/fpu/xstate: Prepare XSAVE feature table for gaps in state component numbers
  x86/fpu/xstate: Add fpstate_realloc()/free()
  x86/fpu/xstate: Add XFD #NM handler
  x86/fpu: Update XFD state where required
  x86/fpu: Add sanity checks for XFD
  x86/fpu: Add XFD state to fpstate
  x86/msr-index: Add MSRs for XFD
  x86/cpufeatures: Add eXtended Feature Disabling (XFD) feature bit
  x86/fpu: Reset permission and fpstate on exec()
  x86/fpu: Prepare fpu_clone() for dynamically enabled features
  x86/fpu/signal: Prepare for variable sigframe length
  x86/signal: Use fpu::__state_user_size for sigalt stack validation
  ...
2021-11-01 14:03:56 -07:00
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accounting
arch A set of fixes for X86: 2021-09-26 10:09:20 -07:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Define memblock_free_ptr() to fix build error 2021-09-15 09:49:48 -07:00
bpf Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-07-31 11:23:26 -07:00
build perf cs-etm: Update OpenCSD decoder for ETE 2021-09-03 08:16:00 -03:00
cgroup tools/cgroup/slabinfo.py: updated to work on current kernel 2021-04-23 14:42:40 -07:00
debugging tools: Fix "the the" in a message in kernel-chktaint 2021-06-13 17:01:17 -06:00
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv
iio
include perf updates: 2021-11-01 13:12:15 -07:00
io_uring tools/io_uring/io_uring-cp: sync with liburing example 2021-08-13 08:58:11 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat KVM: kvm_stat: do not show halt_wait_ns 2021-10-18 14:07:18 -04:00
laptop
leds
lib libperf tests: Fix test_stat_cpu 2021-10-14 15:41:35 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Document data_race(READ_ONCE()) 2021-07-27 11:48:55 -07:00
objtool objtool updates: 2021-11-01 13:24:43 -07:00
pci tools: PCI: Zero-initialize param 2021-08-05 11:01:30 +01:00
pcmcia
perf perf updates: 2021-11-01 13:12:15 -07:00
power tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: v1.10 release 2021-06-18 15:29:32 +02:00
rcu tools/rcu: Add drgn script to dump number of RCU callbacks 2021-05-10 15:39:19 -07:00
scripts tools build: Fix quiet cmd indentation 2021-05-17 12:10:03 +09:00
spi spi: tools: make a symbolic link to the header file spi.h 2021-04-22 16:30:39 +01:00
testing x86/fpu updates: 2021-11-01 14:03:56 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal/tmon: Add cross compiling support 2021-08-14 15:33:19 +02:00
time
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usb usb: testusb: Fix for showing the connection speed 2021-09-14 10:31:41 +02:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix build 2021-08-11 06:44:24 -04:00
vm tools/vm/page-types: remove dependency on opt_file for idle page tracking 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
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