Hi everyone,
I'm currently working on optimizing the Linux kernel for an ARM-based project and would appreciate some guidance. I've already gone through the basics of kernel configuration, but I'm looking for more advanced tips. Specifically, I'm interested in:
Best practices for enabling/disabling specific kernel features for ARM.
Effective ways to profile and analyze performance bottlenecks.
Recommendations for debugging tools tailored for ARM architecture.
Any common pitfalls to avoid during the optimization process.
If you have any experiences or resources to share, I'd be very grateful. Looking forward to your insights!
Best,
Selena Thomas
https://www.igmguru.com/data-science-bi/msbi-certification-training/
Hi everyone,
I'm currently working on optimizing the Linux kernel for an ARM-based project and would appreciate some guidance. I've already gone through the basics of kernel configuration, but I'm looking for more advanced tips. Specifically, I'm interested in:
Best practices for enabling/disabling specific kernel features for ARM.
Effective ways to profile and analyze performance bottlenecks.
Recommendations for debugging tools tailored for ARM architecture.
Any common pitfalls to avoid during the optimization process.
If you have any experiences or resources to share, I'd be very grateful. Looking forward to your insights!
Best regards
Selena
xtheadvector is a custom extension that is based upon riscv vector
version 0.7.1 [1]. All of the vector routines have been modified to
support this alternative vector version based upon whether xtheadvector
was determined to be supported at boot.
vlenb is not supported on the existing xtheadvector hardware, so a
devicetree property thead,vlenb is added to provide the vlenb to Linux.
There is a new hwprobe key RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0 that is
used to request which thead vendor extensions are supported on the
current platform. This allows future vendors to allocate hwprobe keys
for their vendor.
Support for xtheadvector is also added to the vector kselftests.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie(a)rivosinc.com>
[1] https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/95358cb2cca9489361…
---
This series is a continuation of a different series that was fragmented
into two other series in an attempt to get part of it merged in the 6.10
merge window. The split-off series did not get merged due to a NAK on
the series that added the generic riscv,vlenb devicetree entry. This
series has converted riscv,vlenb to thead,vlenb to remedy this issue.
The original series is titled "riscv: Support vendor extensions and
xtheadvector" [3].
The series titled "riscv: Extend cpufeature.c to detect vendor
extensions" is still under development and this series is based on that
series! [4]
I have tested this with an Allwinner Nezha board. I ran into issues
booting the board after 6.9-rc1 so I applied these patches to 6.8. There
are a couple of minor merge conflicts that do arrise when doing that, so
please let me know if you have been able to boot this board with a 6.9
kernel. I used SkiffOS [1] to manage building the image, but upgraded
the U-Boot version to Samuel Holland's more up-to-date version [2] and
changed out the device tree used by U-Boot with the device trees that
are present in upstream linux and this series. Thank you Samuel for all
of the work you did to make this task possible.
[1] https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS/tree/master/configs/allwinner/nezha
[2] https://github.com/smaeul/u-boot/commit/2e89b706f5c956a70c989cd31665f1429e9…
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240503-dev-charlie-support_thead_vector_6_9-v…
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240719-support_vendor_extensions-v3-4-0af758…
---
Changes in v6:
- Fix return type of is_vector_supported()/is_xthead_supported() to be bool
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240719-xtheadvector-v5-0-4b485fc7d55f@rivosinc.…
Changes in v5:
- Rebase on for-next
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240702-xtheadvector-v4-0-2bad6820db11@rivosinc.…
Changes in v4:
- Replace inline asm with C (Samuel)
- Rename VCSRs to CSRs (Samuel)
- Replace .insn directives with .4byte directives
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619-xtheadvector-v3-0-bff39eb9668e@rivosinc.…
Changes in v3:
- Add back Heiko's signed-off-by (Conor)
- Mark RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0 as a bitmask
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240610-xtheadvector-v2-0-97a48613ad64@rivosinc.…
Changes in v2:
- Removed extraneous references to "riscv,vlenb" (Jess)
- Moved declaration of "thead,vlenb" into cpus.yaml and added
restriction that it's only applicable to thead cores (Conor)
- Check CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_XTHEADVECTOR instead of CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V for
thead,vlenb (Jess)
- Fix naming of hwprobe variables (Evan)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240609-xtheadvector-v1-0-3fe591d7f109@rivosinc.…
---
Charlie Jenkins (12):
dt-bindings: riscv: Add xtheadvector ISA extension description
dt-bindings: cpus: add a thead vlen register length property
riscv: dts: allwinner: Add xtheadvector to the D1/D1s devicetree
riscv: Add thead and xtheadvector as a vendor extension
riscv: vector: Use vlenb from DT for thead
riscv: csr: Add CSR encodings for CSR_VXRM/CSR_VXSAT
riscv: Add xtheadvector instruction definitions
riscv: vector: Support xtheadvector save/restore
riscv: hwprobe: Add thead vendor extension probing
riscv: hwprobe: Document thead vendor extensions and xtheadvector extension
selftests: riscv: Fix vector tests
selftests: riscv: Support xtheadvector in vector tests
Heiko Stuebner (1):
RISC-V: define the elements of the VCSR vector CSR
Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst | 10 +
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 19 ++
.../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 10 +
arch/riscv/Kconfig.vendor | 26 ++
arch/riscv/boot/dts/allwinner/sun20i-d1s.dtsi | 3 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h | 15 ++
arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h | 5 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h | 2 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h | 223 ++++++++++++----
arch/riscv/include/asm/vendor_extensions/thead.h | 42 +++
.../include/asm/vendor_extensions/thead_hwprobe.h | 18 ++
.../include/asm/vendor_extensions/vendor_hwprobe.h | 37 +++
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h | 3 +-
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/vendor/thead.h | 3 +
arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 54 +++-
arch/riscv/kernel/kernel_mode_vector.c | 8 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 4 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 6 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 5 +
arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c | 24 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions.c | 10 +
arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/Makefile | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/thead.c | 18 ++
.../riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/thead_hwprobe.c | 19 ++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/.gitignore | 3 +-
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/Makefile | 17 +-
.../selftests/riscv/vector/v_exec_initval_nolibc.c | 93 +++++++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/v_helpers.c | 68 +++++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/v_helpers.h | 8 +
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/v_initval.c | 22 ++
.../selftests/riscv/vector/v_initval_nolibc.c | 68 -----
.../selftests/riscv/vector/vstate_exec_nolibc.c | 20 +-
.../testing/selftests/riscv/vector/vstate_prctl.c | 295 ++++++++++++---------
34 files changed, 889 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 554462ced9ac97487c8f725fe466a9c20ed87521
change-id: 20240530-xtheadvector-833d3d17b423
--
- Charlie
My last patch[1] was met with a general desire for a safer scheme that
avoided global resets, which expose unclear ownership.
Fortunately, Johannes[2] suggested a reasonably simple scheme to provide
an FD-local reset, which eliminates most of those issues.
The one open question I have is whether the cgroup/memcg itself is kept
alive by an open FD, or if we need to update the memcg freeing code to
traverse the new list of "watchers" so they don't try to access freed
memory.
Thank you,
David Finkel
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Core Services
Vimeo Inc.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/20240715203625.1462309-1-davidf@vimeo.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/20240717170408.GC1321673@cmpxchg.org/
xtheadvector is a custom extension that is based upon riscv vector
version 0.7.1 [1]. All of the vector routines have been modified to
support this alternative vector version based upon whether xtheadvector
was determined to be supported at boot.
vlenb is not supported on the existing xtheadvector hardware, so a
devicetree property thead,vlenb is added to provide the vlenb to Linux.
There is a new hwprobe key RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0 that is
used to request which thead vendor extensions are supported on the
current platform. This allows future vendors to allocate hwprobe keys
for their vendor.
Support for xtheadvector is also added to the vector kselftests.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie(a)rivosinc.com>
[1] https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/95358cb2cca9489361…
---
This series is a continuation of a different series that was fragmented
into two other series in an attempt to get part of it merged in the 6.10
merge window. The split-off series did not get merged due to a NAK on
the series that added the generic riscv,vlenb devicetree entry. This
series has converted riscv,vlenb to thead,vlenb to remedy this issue.
The original series is titled "riscv: Support vendor extensions and
xtheadvector" [3].
The series titled "riscv: Extend cpufeature.c to detect vendor
extensions" is still under development and this series is based on that
series! [4]
I have tested this with an Allwinner Nezha board. I ran into issues
booting the board after 6.9-rc1 so I applied these patches to 6.8. There
are a couple of minor merge conflicts that do arrise when doing that, so
please let me know if you have been able to boot this board with a 6.9
kernel. I used SkiffOS [1] to manage building the image, but upgraded
the U-Boot version to Samuel Holland's more up-to-date version [2] and
changed out the device tree used by U-Boot with the device trees that
are present in upstream linux and this series. Thank you Samuel for all
of the work you did to make this task possible.
[1] https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS/tree/master/configs/allwinner/nezha
[2] https://github.com/smaeul/u-boot/commit/2e89b706f5c956a70c989cd31665f1429e9…
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240503-dev-charlie-support_thead_vector_6_9-v…
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240609-support_vendor_extensions-v2-0…
---
Changes in v5:
- Rebase on for-next
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240702-xtheadvector-v4-0-2bad6820db11@rivosinc.…
Changes in v4:
- Replace inline asm with C (Samuel)
- Rename VCSRs to CSRs (Samuel)
- Replace .insn directives with .4byte directives
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619-xtheadvector-v3-0-bff39eb9668e@rivosinc.…
Changes in v3:
- Add back Heiko's signed-off-by (Conor)
- Mark RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0 as a bitmask
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240610-xtheadvector-v2-0-97a48613ad64@rivosinc.…
Changes in v2:
- Removed extraneous references to "riscv,vlenb" (Jess)
- Moved declaration of "thead,vlenb" into cpus.yaml and added
restriction that it's only applicable to thead cores (Conor)
- Check CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_XTHEADVECTOR instead of CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V for
thead,vlenb (Jess)
- Fix naming of hwprobe variables (Evan)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240609-xtheadvector-v1-0-3fe591d7f109@rivosinc.…
---
Charlie Jenkins (12):
dt-bindings: riscv: Add xtheadvector ISA extension description
dt-bindings: cpus: add a thead vlen register length property
riscv: dts: allwinner: Add xtheadvector to the D1/D1s devicetree
riscv: Add thead and xtheadvector as a vendor extension
riscv: vector: Use vlenb from DT for thead
riscv: csr: Add CSR encodings for CSR_VXRM/CSR_VXSAT
riscv: Add xtheadvector instruction definitions
riscv: vector: Support xtheadvector save/restore
riscv: hwprobe: Add thead vendor extension probing
riscv: hwprobe: Document thead vendor extensions and xtheadvector extension
selftests: riscv: Fix vector tests
selftests: riscv: Support xtheadvector in vector tests
Heiko Stuebner (1):
RISC-V: define the elements of the VCSR vector CSR
Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst | 10 +
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 19 ++
.../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 10 +
arch/riscv/Kconfig.vendor | 26 ++
arch/riscv/boot/dts/allwinner/sun20i-d1s.dtsi | 3 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h | 15 ++
arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h | 5 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h | 2 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h | 223 ++++++++++++----
arch/riscv/include/asm/vendor_extensions/thead.h | 42 +++
.../include/asm/vendor_extensions/thead_hwprobe.h | 18 ++
.../include/asm/vendor_extensions/vendor_hwprobe.h | 37 +++
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h | 3 +-
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/vendor/thead.h | 3 +
arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 54 +++-
arch/riscv/kernel/kernel_mode_vector.c | 8 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 4 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 6 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 5 +
arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c | 24 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions.c | 10 +
arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/Makefile | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/thead.c | 18 ++
.../riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/thead_hwprobe.c | 19 ++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/ptrace | Bin 0 -> 759368 bytes
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/.gitignore | 3 +-
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/Makefile | 17 +-
.../selftests/riscv/vector/v_exec_initval_nolibc.c | 93 +++++++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/v_helpers.c | 67 +++++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/v_helpers.h | 7 +
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/vector/v_initval.c | 22 ++
.../selftests/riscv/vector/v_initval_nolibc.c | 68 -----
.../selftests/riscv/vector/vstate_exec_nolibc.c | 20 +-
.../testing/selftests/riscv/vector/vstate_prctl.c | 295 ++++++++++++---------
35 files changed, 887 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 554462ced9ac97487c8f725fe466a9c20ed87521
change-id: 20240530-xtheadvector-833d3d17b423
--
- Charlie
This is a rebase of a patch I sent a few months ago, on which I received
two acks, but the thread petered out:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg40602.html.
I'm hoping that it can make it into the next LTS (and 6.11 if possible)
Thank you,
David Finkel
Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Vimeo
The arm64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) feature provides support for
hardware protected stacks of return addresses, intended to provide
hardening against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks and to make
it easier to gather call stacks for applications such as profiling.
When GCS is active a secondary stack called the Guarded Control Stack is
maintained, protected with a memory attribute which means that it can
only be written with specific GCS operations. The current GCS pointer
can not be directly written to by userspace. When a BL is executed the
value stored in LR is also pushed onto the GCS, and when a RET is
executed the top of the GCS is popped and compared to LR with a fault
being raised if the values do not match. GCS operations may only be
performed on GCS pages, a data abort is generated if they are not.
The combination of hardware enforcement and lack of extra instructions
in the function entry and exit paths should result in something which
has less overhead and is more difficult to attack than a purely software
implementation like clang's shadow stacks.
This series implements support for use of GCS by userspace, along with
support for use of GCS within KVM guests. It does not enable use of GCS
by either EL1 or EL2, this will be implemented separately. Executables
are started without GCS and must use a prctl() to enable it, it is
expected that this will be done very early in application execution by
the dynamic linker or other startup code. For dynamic linking this will
be done by checking that everything in the executable is marked as GCS
compatible.
x86 has an equivalent feature called shadow stacks, this series depends
on the x86 patches for generic memory management support for the new
guarded/shadow stack page type and shares APIs as much as possible. As
there has been extensive discussion with the wider community around the
ABI for shadow stacks I have as far as practical kept implementation
decisions close to those for x86, anticipating that review would lead to
similar conclusions in the absence of strong reasoning for divergence.
The main divergence I am concious of is that x86 allows shadow stack to
be enabled and disabled repeatedly, freeing the shadow stack for the
thread whenever disabled, while this implementation keeps the GCS
allocated after disable but refuses to reenable it. This is to avoid
races with things actively walking the GCS during a disable, we do
anticipate that some systems will wish to disable GCS at runtime but are
not aware of any demand for subsequently reenabling it.
x86 uses an arch_prctl() to manage enable and disable, since only x86
and S/390 use arch_prctl() a generic prctl() was proposed[1] as part of a
patch set for the equivalent RISC-V Zicfiss feature which I initially
adopted fairly directly but following review feedback has been revised
quite a bit.
We currently maintain the x86 pattern of implicitly allocating a shadow
stack for threads started with shadow stack enabled, there has been some
discussion of removing this support and requiring the use of clone3()
with explicit allocation of shadow stacks instead. I have no strong
feelings either way, implicit allocation is not really consistent with
anything else we do and creates the potential for errors around thread
exit but on the other hand it is existing ABI on x86 and minimises the
changes needed in userspace code.
glibc and bionic changes using this ABI have been implemented and
tested. Headless Android systems have been validated and Ross Burton
has used this code has been used to bring up a Yocto system with GCS
enabed as standard, a test implementation of V8 support has also been
done.
There is an open issue with support for CRIU, on x86 this required the
ability to set the GCS mode via ptrace. This series supports
configuring mode bits other than enable/disable via ptrace but it needs
to be confirmed if this is sufficient.
The series depends on support for shadow stacks in clone3(), that series
includes the addition of ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK.
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240623-clone3-shadow-stack-v6-0-9ee7783b1fb9@ke…
You can see a branch with the full set of dependencies against Linus'
tree at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/misc.git arm64-gcs
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230213045351.3945824-1-debug@rivosinc.com/
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie(a)kernel.org>
---
Changes in v9:
- Rebase onto v6.10-rc3.
- Restructure and clarify memory management fault handling.
- Fix up basic-gcs for the latest clone3() changes.
- Convert to newly merged KVM ID register based feature configuration.
- Fixes for NV traps.
- Link to v8: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203-arm64-gcs-v8-0-c9fec77673ef@kernel.org
Changes in v8:
- Invalidate signal cap token on stack when consuming.
- Typo and other trivial fixes.
- Don't try to use process_vm_write() on GCS, it intentionally does not
work.
- Fix leak of thread GCSs.
- Rebase onto latest clone3() series.
- Link to v7: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122-arm64-gcs-v7-0-201c483bd775@kernel.org
Changes in v7:
- Rebase onto v6.7-rc2 via the clone3() patch series.
- Change the token used to cap the stack during signal handling to be
compatible with GCSPOPM.
- Fix flags for new page types.
- Fold in support for clone3().
- Replace copy_to_user_gcs() with put_user_gcs().
- Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009-arm64-gcs-v6-0-78e55deaa4dd@kernel.org
Changes in v6:
- Rebase onto v6.6-rc3.
- Add some more gcsb_dsync() barriers following spec clarifications.
- Due to ongoing discussion around clone()/clone3() I've not updated
anything there, the behaviour is the same as on previous versions.
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230822-arm64-gcs-v5-0-9ef181dd6324@kernel.org
Changes in v5:
- Don't map any permissions for user GCSs, we always use EL0 accessors
or use a separate mapping of the page.
- Reduce the standard size of the GCS to RLIMIT_STACK/2.
- Enforce a PAGE_SIZE alignment requirement on map_shadow_stack().
- Clarifications and fixes to documentation.
- More tests.
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807-arm64-gcs-v4-0-68cfa37f9069@kernel.org
Changes in v4:
- Implement flags for map_shadow_stack() allowing the cap and end of
stack marker to be enabled independently or not at all.
- Relax size and alignment requirements for map_shadow_stack().
- Add more blurb explaining the advantages of hardware enforcement.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731-arm64-gcs-v3-0-cddf9f980d98@kernel.org
Changes in v3:
- Rebase onto v6.5-rc4.
- Add a GCS barrier on context switch.
- Add a GCS stress test.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724-arm64-gcs-v2-0-dc2c1d44c2eb@kernel.org
Changes in v2:
- Rebase onto v6.5-rc3.
- Rework prctl() interface to allow each bit to be locked independently.
- map_shadow_stack() now places the cap token based on the size
requested by the caller not the actual space allocated.
- Mode changes other than enable via ptrace are now supported.
- Expand test coverage.
- Various smaller fixes and adjustments.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230716-arm64-gcs-v1-0-bf567f93bba6@kernel.org
---
Mark Brown (39):
arm64/mm: Restructure arch_validate_flags() for extensibility
prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for shadow stack
mman: Add map_shadow_stack() flags
arm64: Document boot requirements for Guarded Control Stacks
arm64/gcs: Document the ABI for Guarded Control Stacks
arm64/sysreg: Add definitions for architected GCS caps
arm64/gcs: Add manual encodings of GCS instructions
arm64/gcs: Provide put_user_gcs()
arm64/cpufeature: Runtime detection of Guarded Control Stack (GCS)
arm64/mm: Allocate PIE slots for EL0 guarded control stack
mm: Define VM_SHADOW_STACK for arm64 when we support GCS
arm64/mm: Map pages for guarded control stack
KVM: arm64: Manage GCS registers for guests
arm64/gcs: Allow GCS usage at EL0 and EL1
arm64/idreg: Add overrride for GCS
arm64/hwcap: Add hwcap for GCS
arm64/traps: Handle GCS exceptions
arm64/mm: Handle GCS data aborts
arm64/gcs: Context switch GCS state for EL0
arm64/gcs: Ensure that new threads have a GCS
arm64/gcs: Implement shadow stack prctl() interface
arm64/mm: Implement map_shadow_stack()
arm64/signal: Set up and restore the GCS context for signal handlers
arm64/signal: Expose GCS state in signal frames
arm64/ptrace: Expose GCS via ptrace and core files
arm64: Add Kconfig for Guarded Control Stack (GCS)
kselftest/arm64: Verify the GCS hwcap
kselftest: Provide shadow stack enable helpers for arm64
selftests/clone3: Enable arm64 shadow stack testing
kselftest/arm64: Add GCS as a detected feature in the signal tests
kselftest/arm64: Add framework support for GCS to signal handling tests
kselftest/arm64: Allow signals tests to specify an expected si_code
kselftest/arm64: Always run signals tests with GCS enabled
kselftest/arm64: Add very basic GCS test program
kselftest/arm64: Add a GCS test program built with the system libc
kselftest/arm64: Add test coverage for GCS mode locking
kselftest/arm64: Add GCS signal tests
kselftest/arm64: Add a GCS stress test
kselftest/arm64: Enable GCS for the FP stress tests
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +
Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 22 +
Documentation/arch/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 2 +
Documentation/arch/arm64/gcs.rst | 233 +++++++
Documentation/arch/arm64/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 2 +-
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 20 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 6 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h | 17 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h | 28 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/exception.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/gcs.h | 107 +++
arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 14 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/mman.h | 23 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 14 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 7 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 20 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 40 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/vncr_mapping.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 8 +
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h | 9 +
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 19 +
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 23 +
arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c | 2 +
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 85 +++
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 59 ++
arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 242 ++++++-
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 11 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/sysreg-sr.h | 48 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 25 +-
arch/arm64/mm/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 43 ++
arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c | 325 +++++++++
arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c | 13 +-
arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 1 +
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 3 -
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +
include/linux/mm.h | 16 +-
include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h | 4 +
include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 22 +
kernel/sys.c | 30 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c | 19 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/assembler.h | 15 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/fpsimd-test.S | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/sve-test.S | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/zt-test.S | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/.gitignore | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/Makefile | 24 +
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/asm-offsets.h | 0
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/basic-gcs.c | 357 ++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/gcs-locking.c | 200 ++++++
.../selftests/arm64/gcs/gcs-stress-thread.S | 311 +++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/gcs-stress.c | 532 +++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/gcs-util.h | 100 +++
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/libc-gcs.c | 736 +++++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/.gitignore | 1 +
.../testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.c | 17 +-
.../testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h | 6 +
.../selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c | 32 +-
.../selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h | 39 ++
.../arm64/signal/testcases/gcs_exception_fault.c | 62 ++
.../selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/gcs_frame.c | 88 +++
.../arm64/signal/testcases/gcs_write_fault.c | 67 ++
.../selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/testcases.c | 7 +
.../selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/testcases.h | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3_selftests.h | 26 +
tools/testing/selftests/ksft_shstk.h | 37 ++
73 files changed, 4213 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 4c8cf8814957090ce50ad18f318f72e6fe0d1a32
change-id: 20230303-arm64-gcs-e311ab0d8729
Best regards,
--
Mark Brown <broonie(a)kernel.org>
From: diegodvv <diego.daniel.professional(a)gmail.com>
Hi all,
This is part of a hackathon organized by LKCAMP[1], focused on writing
tests using KUnit. We reached out a while ago asking for advice on what would
be a useful contribution[2] and ended up choosing data structures that did
not yet have tests.
This patch adds tests for the kfifo data structure, defined in
include/linux/kfifo.h, and is inspired by the KUnit tests for the doubly
linked list in lib/list-test.c[3].
[1] https://lkcamp.dev/about/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zktnt7rjKryTh9-N@arch/
[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/lib/list-test.c
Diego Vieira (1):
lib/kfifo-test.c: add tests for the kfifo structure
lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 +++
lib/Makefile | 1 +
lib/kfifo-test.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 237 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 lib/kfifo-test.c
--
2.34.1
The checksum_32 code was originally written to only handle 2-byte
aligned buffers, but was later extended to support arbitrary alignment.
However, the non-PPro variant doesn't apply the carry before jumping to
the 2- or 4-byte aligned versions, which clear CF.
This causes the new checksum_kunit test to fail, as it runs with a large
number of different possible alignments and both with and without
carries.
For example:
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch i386 --kconfig_add CONFIG_M486=y checksum
Gives:
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: checksum
1..3
ok 1 test_csum_fixed_random_inputs
# test_csum_all_carry_inputs: ASSERTION FAILED at lib/checksum_kunit.c:267
Expected result == expec, but
result == 65281 (0xff01)
expec == 65280 (0xff00)
not ok 2 test_csum_all_carry_inputs
# test_csum_no_carry_inputs: ASSERTION FAILED at lib/checksum_kunit.c:314
Expected result == expec, but
result == 65535 (0xffff)
expec == 65534 (0xfffe)
not ok 3 test_csum_no_carry_inputs
With this patch, it passes.
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: checksum
1..3
ok 1 test_csum_fixed_random_inputs
ok 2 test_csum_all_carry_inputs
ok 3 test_csum_no_carry_inputs
I also tested it on a real 486DX2, with the same results.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow(a)google.com>
---
Re-sending this from [1]. While there's an argument that the whole
32-bit checksum code could do with rewriting, it's:
(a) worth fixing before someone takes the time to rewrite it, and
(b) worth any future rewrite starting from a point where the tests pass
I don't think there should be any downside to this fix: it only affects
ancient computers, and adds a single instruction which isn't in a loop.
Cheers,
-- David
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230704083206.693155-2-davidgow@google.com/
---
arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S b/arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S
index 68f7fa3e1322..a5123b29b403 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(csum_partial)
jl 8f
movzbl (%esi), %ebx
adcl %ebx, %eax
+ adcl $0, %eax
roll $8, %eax
inc %esi
testl $2, %esi
--
2.45.2.1089.g2a221341d9-goog