This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-asm-move-status-from-thread_struct-to-thread_info.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Feb 8 03:32:24 CET 2018

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:38:50 -0800 Subject: x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

(cherry picked from commit 37a8f7c38339b22b69876d6f5a0ab851565284e3)

The TS_COMPAT bit is very hot and is accessed from code paths that mostly also touch thread_info::flags. Move it into struct thread_info to improve cache locality.

The only reason it was in thread_struct is that there was a brief period during which arch-specific fields were not allowed in struct thread_info.

Linus suggested further changing:

ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED);

to:

if (unlikely(ti->status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED))) ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED);

on the theory that frequently dirtying the cacheline even in pure 64-bit code that never needs to modify status hurts performance. That could be a reasonable followup patch, but I suspect it matters less on top of this patch.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Acked-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Kernel Hardening kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/03148bcc1b217100e6e8ecf6a5468c45cf4304b6.151716446... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/entry/common.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 -- arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h | 6 +++--- arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 3 ++- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 7 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/common.c @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ __visible inline void prepare_exit_to_us * special case only applies after poking regs and before the * very next return to user mode. */ - current->thread.status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED); + ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED); #endif

user_enter_irqoff(); @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static __always_inline void do_syscall_3 unsigned int nr = (unsigned int)regs->orig_ax;

#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION - current->thread.status |= TS_COMPAT; + ti->status |= TS_COMPAT; #endif

if (READ_ONCE(ti->flags) & _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY) { --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -391,8 +391,6 @@ struct thread_struct { unsigned short gsindex; #endif

- u32 status; /* thread synchronous flags */ - #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 unsigned long fsbase; unsigned long gsbase; --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static inline long syscall_get_error(str * TS_COMPAT is set for 32-bit syscall entries and then * remains set until we return to user mode. */ - if (task->thread.status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED)) + if (task->thread_info.status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED)) /* * Sign-extend the value so (int)-EFOO becomes (long)-EFOO * and will match correctly in comparisons. @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static inline void syscall_get_arguments unsigned long *args) { # ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION - if (task->thread.status & TS_COMPAT) + if (task->thread_info.status & TS_COMPAT) switch (i) { case 0: if (!n--) break; @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static inline void syscall_set_arguments const unsigned long *args) { # ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION - if (task->thread.status & TS_COMPAT) + if (task->thread_info.status & TS_COMPAT) switch (i) { case 0: if (!n--) break; --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct task_struct;

struct thread_info { unsigned long flags; /* low level flags */ + u32 status; /* thread synchronous flags */ };

#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \ @@ -213,7 +214,7 @@ static inline int arch_within_stack_fram #define in_ia32_syscall() true #else #define in_ia32_syscall() (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION) && \ - current->thread.status & TS_COMPAT) + current_thread_info()->status & TS_COMPAT) #endif

/* --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ void set_personality_ia32(bool x32) current->personality &= ~READ_IMPLIES_EXEC; /* in_compat_syscall() uses the presence of the x32 syscall bit flag to determine compat status */ - current->thread.status &= ~TS_COMPAT; + current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_COMPAT; } else { set_thread_flag(TIF_IA32); clear_thread_flag(TIF_X32); @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ void set_personality_ia32(bool x32) current->mm->context.ia32_compat = TIF_IA32; current->personality |= force_personality32; /* Prepare the first "return" to user space */ - current->thread.status |= TS_COMPAT; + current_thread_info()->status |= TS_COMPAT; } } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_personality_ia32); --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ static int putreg32(struct task_struct * */ regs->orig_ax = value; if (syscall_get_nr(child, regs) >= 0) - child->thread.status |= TS_I386_REGS_POKED; + child->thread_info.status |= TS_I386_REGS_POKED; break;

case offsetof(struct user32, regs.eflags): --- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c @@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ static inline unsigned long get_nr_resta * than the tracee. */ #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION - if (current->thread.status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED)) + if (current_thread_info()->status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED)) return __NR_ia32_restart_syscall; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/x86-entry-64-push-extra-regs-right-away.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch queue-4.9/kvm-svm-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-move-status-from-thread_struct-to-thread_info.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-entry-64-remove-the-syscall64-fast-path.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-fix-inline-asm-call-constraints-for-gcc-4.4.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch queue-4.9/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch queue-4.9/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-mark-constant-arrays-as-__initconst.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-emulate-msr_ia32_arch_capabilities.patch