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<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
  ...
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-11-18T02:30:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-18T00:19:14+00:00</published>
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include/linux/bpf.h
  1f6e04a1c7b8 ("bpf: Fix offset calculation error in __copy_map_value and zero_map_value")
  aa3496accc41 ("bpf: Refactor kptr_off_tab into btf_record")
  f71b2f64177a ("bpf: Refactor map-&gt;off_arr handling")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221114095000.67a73239@canb.auug.org.au/

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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include/linux/bpf.h
  1f6e04a1c7b8 ("bpf: Fix offset calculation error in __copy_map_value and zero_map_value")
  aa3496accc41 ("bpf: Refactor kptr_off_tab into btf_record")
  f71b2f64177a ("bpf: Refactor map-&gt;off_arr handling")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221114095000.67a73239@canb.auug.org.au/

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Revert ("Fix dispatcher patchable function entry to 5 bytes nop")</title>
<updated>2022-11-04T22:13:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-03T12:00:13+00:00</published>
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Because __attribute__((patchable_function_entry)) is only available
since GCC-8 this solution fails to build on the minimum required GCC
version.

Undo these changes so we might try again -- without cluttering up the
patches with too many changes.

This is an almost complete revert of:

  dbe69b299884 ("bpf: Fix dispatcher patchable function entry to 5 bytes nop")
  ceea991a019c ("bpf: Move bpf_dispatcher function out of ftrace locations")

(notably the arch/x86/Kconfig hunk is kept).

Reported-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/439d8dc735bb4858875377df67f1b29a@AcuMS.aculab.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221103120647.728830733@infradead.org
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Because __attribute__((patchable_function_entry)) is only available
since GCC-8 this solution fails to build on the minimum required GCC
version.

Undo these changes so we might try again -- without cluttering up the
patches with too many changes.

This is an almost complete revert of:

  dbe69b299884 ("bpf: Fix dispatcher patchable function entry to 5 bytes nop")
  ceea991a019c ("bpf: Move bpf_dispatcher function out of ftrace locations")

(notably the arch/x86/Kconfig hunk is kept).

Reported-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/439d8dc735bb4858875377df67f1b29a@AcuMS.aculab.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221103120647.728830733@infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2022-11-02T15:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-02T15:18:26+00:00</published>
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
bpf-next 2022-11-02

We've added 70 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain
a total of 96 files changed, 3203 insertions(+), 640 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF programs
   such as tc BPF ones, from Yonghong Song.

2) Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task storage
   helpers, from Martin KaFai Lau.

3) Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code
   in bpftool, from Quentin Monnet.

4) Various kprobe_multi_link fixes related to kernel modules,
   from Jiri Olsa.

5) Optimize x86-64 JIT with emitting BMI2-based shift instructions,
   from Jie Meng.

6) Improve BPF verifier's memory type compatibility for map key/value
   arguments, from Dave Marchevsky.

7) Only create mmap-able data section maps in libbpf when data is exposed
   via skeletons, from Andrii Nakryiko.

8) Add an autoattach option for bpftool to load all object assets,
   from Wang Yufen.

9) Various memory handling fixes for libbpf and BPF selftests,
   from Xu Kuohai.

10) Initial support for BPF selftest's vmtest.sh on arm64,
    from Manu Bretelle.

11) Improve libbpf's BTF handling to dedup identical structs,
    from Alan Maguire.

12) Add BPF CI and denylist documentation for BPF selftests,
    from Daniel Müller.

13) Check BPF cpumap max_entries before doing allocation work,
    from Florian Lehner.

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (70 commits)
  samples/bpf: Fix typo in README
  bpf: Remove the obsolte u64_stats_fetch_*_irq() users.
  bpf: check max_entries before allocating memory
  bpf: Fix a typo in comment for DFS algorithm
  bpftool: Fix spelling mistake "disasembler" -&gt; "disassembler"
  selftests/bpf: Fix bpftool synctypes checking failure
  selftests/bpf: Panic on hard/soft lockup
  docs/bpf: Add documentation for new cgroup local storage
  selftests/bpf: Add test cgrp_local_storage to DENYLIST.s390x
  selftests/bpf: Add selftests for new cgroup local storage
  selftests/bpf: Fix test test_libbpf_str/bpf_map_type_str
  bpftool: Support new cgroup local storage
  libbpf: Support new cgroup local storage
  bpf: Implement cgroup storage available to non-cgroup-attached bpf progs
  bpf: Refactor some inode/task/sk storage functions for reuse
  bpf: Make struct cgroup btf id global
  selftests/bpf: Tracing prog can still do lookup under busy lock
  selftests/bpf: Ensure no task storage failure for bpf_lsm.s prog due to deadlock detection
  bpf: Add new bpf_task_storage_delete proto with no deadlock detection
  bpf: bpf_task_storage_delete_recur does lookup first before the deadlock check
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102062120.5724-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
bpf-next 2022-11-02

We've added 70 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain
a total of 96 files changed, 3203 insertions(+), 640 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF programs
   such as tc BPF ones, from Yonghong Song.

2) Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task storage
   helpers, from Martin KaFai Lau.

3) Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code
   in bpftool, from Quentin Monnet.

4) Various kprobe_multi_link fixes related to kernel modules,
   from Jiri Olsa.

5) Optimize x86-64 JIT with emitting BMI2-based shift instructions,
   from Jie Meng.

6) Improve BPF verifier's memory type compatibility for map key/value
   arguments, from Dave Marchevsky.

7) Only create mmap-able data section maps in libbpf when data is exposed
   via skeletons, from Andrii Nakryiko.

8) Add an autoattach option for bpftool to load all object assets,
   from Wang Yufen.

9) Various memory handling fixes for libbpf and BPF selftests,
   from Xu Kuohai.

10) Initial support for BPF selftest's vmtest.sh on arm64,
    from Manu Bretelle.

11) Improve libbpf's BTF handling to dedup identical structs,
    from Alan Maguire.

12) Add BPF CI and denylist documentation for BPF selftests,
    from Daniel Müller.

13) Check BPF cpumap max_entries before doing allocation work,
    from Florian Lehner.

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (70 commits)
  samples/bpf: Fix typo in README
  bpf: Remove the obsolte u64_stats_fetch_*_irq() users.
  bpf: check max_entries before allocating memory
  bpf: Fix a typo in comment for DFS algorithm
  bpftool: Fix spelling mistake "disasembler" -&gt; "disassembler"
  selftests/bpf: Fix bpftool synctypes checking failure
  selftests/bpf: Panic on hard/soft lockup
  docs/bpf: Add documentation for new cgroup local storage
  selftests/bpf: Add test cgrp_local_storage to DENYLIST.s390x
  selftests/bpf: Add selftests for new cgroup local storage
  selftests/bpf: Fix test test_libbpf_str/bpf_map_type_str
  bpftool: Support new cgroup local storage
  libbpf: Support new cgroup local storage
  bpf: Implement cgroup storage available to non-cgroup-attached bpf progs
  bpf: Refactor some inode/task/sk storage functions for reuse
  bpf: Make struct cgroup btf id global
  selftests/bpf: Tracing prog can still do lookup under busy lock
  selftests/bpf: Ensure no task storage failure for bpf_lsm.s prog due to deadlock detection
  bpf: Add new bpf_task_storage_delete proto with no deadlock detection
  bpf: bpf_task_storage_delete_recur does lookup first before the deadlock check
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102062120.5724-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Remove prog-&gt;active check for bpf_lsm and bpf_iter</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T06:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin KaFai Lau</name>
<email>martin.lau@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-25T18:45:16+00:00</published>
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The commit 64696c40d03c ("bpf: Add __bpf_prog_{enter,exit}_struct_ops for struct_ops trampoline")
removed prog-&gt;active check for struct_ops prog.  The bpf_lsm
and bpf_iter is also using trampoline.  Like struct_ops, the bpf_lsm
and bpf_iter have fixed hooks for the prog to attach.  The
kernel does not call the same hook in a recursive way.
This patch also removes the prog-&gt;active check for
bpf_lsm and bpf_iter.

A later patch has a test to reproduce the recursion issue
for a sleepable bpf_lsm program.

This patch appends the '_recur' naming to the existing
enter and exit functions that track the prog-&gt;active counter.
New __bpf_prog_{enter,exit}[_sleepable] function are
added to skip the prog-&gt;active tracking. The '_struct_ops'
version is also removed.

It also moves the decision on picking the enter and exit function to
the new bpf_trampoline_{enter,exit}().  It returns the '_recur' ones
for all tracing progs to use.  For bpf_lsm, bpf_iter,
struct_ops (no prog-&gt;active tracking after 64696c40d03c), and
bpf_lsm_cgroup (no prog-&gt;active tracking after 69fd337a975c7),
it will return the functions that don't track the prog-&gt;active.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025184524.3526117-2-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The commit 64696c40d03c ("bpf: Add __bpf_prog_{enter,exit}_struct_ops for struct_ops trampoline")
removed prog-&gt;active check for struct_ops prog.  The bpf_lsm
and bpf_iter is also using trampoline.  Like struct_ops, the bpf_lsm
and bpf_iter have fixed hooks for the prog to attach.  The
kernel does not call the same hook in a recursive way.
This patch also removes the prog-&gt;active check for
bpf_lsm and bpf_iter.

A later patch has a test to reproduce the recursion issue
for a sleepable bpf_lsm program.

This patch appends the '_recur' naming to the existing
enter and exit functions that track the prog-&gt;active counter.
New __bpf_prog_{enter,exit}[_sleepable] function are
added to skip the prog-&gt;active tracking. The '_struct_ops'
version is also removed.

It also moves the decision on picking the enter and exit function to
the new bpf_trampoline_{enter,exit}().  It returns the '_recur' ones
for all tracing progs to use.  For bpf_lsm, bpf_iter,
struct_ops (no prog-&gt;active tracking after 64696c40d03c), and
bpf_lsm_cgroup (no prog-&gt;active tracking after 69fd337a975c7),
it will return the functions that don't track the prog-&gt;active.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025184524.3526117-2-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-10-24T20:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-24T20:44:11+00:00</published>
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include/linux/net.h
  a5ef058dc4d9 ("net: introduce and use custom sockopt socket flag")
  e993ffe3da4b ("net: flag sockets supporting msghdr originated zerocopy")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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include/linux/net.h
  a5ef058dc4d9 ("net: introduce and use custom sockopt socket flag")
  e993ffe3da4b ("net: flag sockets supporting msghdr originated zerocopy")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Fix dispatcher patchable function entry to 5 bytes nop</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T01:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-18T07:59:34+00:00</published>
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The patchable_function_entry(5) might output 5 single nop
instructions (depends on toolchain), which will clash with
bpf_arch_text_poke check for 5 bytes nop instruction.

Adding early init call for dispatcher that checks and change
the patchable entry into expected 5 nop instruction if needed.

There's no need to take text_mutex, because we are using it
in early init call which is called at pre-smp time.

Fixes: ceea991a019c ("bpf: Move bpf_dispatcher function out of ftrace locations")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018075934.574415-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The patchable_function_entry(5) might output 5 single nop
instructions (depends on toolchain), which will clash with
bpf_arch_text_poke check for 5 bytes nop instruction.

Adding early init call for dispatcher that checks and change
the patchable entry into expected 5 nop instruction if needed.

There's no need to take text_mutex, because we are using it
in early init call which is called at pre-smp time.

Fixes: ceea991a019c ("bpf: Move bpf_dispatcher function out of ftrace locations")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018075934.574415-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf,x64: use shrx/sarx/shlx when available</title>
<updated>2022-10-19T23:53:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jie Meng</name>
<email>jmeng@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T20:23:48+00:00</published>
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BMI2 provides 3 shift instructions (shrx, sarx and shlx) that use VEX
encoding but target general purpose registers [1]. They allow the shift
count in any general purpose register and have the same performance as
non BMI2 shift instructions [2].

Instead of shr/sar/shl that implicitly use %cl (lowest 8 bit of %rcx),
emit their more flexible alternatives provided in BMI2 when advantageous;
keep using the non BMI2 instructions when shift count is already in
BPF_REG_4/%rcx as non BMI2 instructions are shorter.

To summarize, when BMI2 is available:
-------------------------------------------------
            |   arbitrary dst
=================================================
src == ecx  |   shl dst, cl
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx  |   shlx dst, dst, src
-------------------------------------------------

And no additional register shuffling is needed.

A concrete example between non BMI2 and BMI2 codegen.  To shift %rsi by
%rdi:

Without BMI2:

 ef3:   push   %rcx
        51
 ef4:   mov    %rdi,%rcx
        48 89 f9
 ef7:   shl    %cl,%rsi
        48 d3 e6
 efa:   pop    %rcx
        59

With BMI2:

 f0b:   shlx   %rdi,%rsi,%rsi
        c4 e2 c1 f7 f6

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_Bit_manipulation_instruction_set
[2] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf

Signed-off-by: Jie Meng &lt;jmeng@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221007202348.1118830-3-jmeng@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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BMI2 provides 3 shift instructions (shrx, sarx and shlx) that use VEX
encoding but target general purpose registers [1]. They allow the shift
count in any general purpose register and have the same performance as
non BMI2 shift instructions [2].

Instead of shr/sar/shl that implicitly use %cl (lowest 8 bit of %rcx),
emit their more flexible alternatives provided in BMI2 when advantageous;
keep using the non BMI2 instructions when shift count is already in
BPF_REG_4/%rcx as non BMI2 instructions are shorter.

To summarize, when BMI2 is available:
-------------------------------------------------
            |   arbitrary dst
=================================================
src == ecx  |   shl dst, cl
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx  |   shlx dst, dst, src
-------------------------------------------------

And no additional register shuffling is needed.

A concrete example between non BMI2 and BMI2 codegen.  To shift %rsi by
%rdi:

Without BMI2:

 ef3:   push   %rcx
        51
 ef4:   mov    %rdi,%rcx
        48 89 f9
 ef7:   shl    %cl,%rsi
        48 d3 e6
 efa:   pop    %rcx
        59

With BMI2:

 f0b:   shlx   %rdi,%rsi,%rsi
        c4 e2 c1 f7 f6

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_Bit_manipulation_instruction_set
[2] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf

Signed-off-by: Jie Meng &lt;jmeng@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221007202348.1118830-3-jmeng@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf,x64: avoid unnecessary instructions when shift dest is ecx</title>
<updated>2022-10-19T23:53:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jie Meng</name>
<email>jmeng@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T20:23:47+00:00</published>
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x64 JIT produces redundant instructions when a shift operation's
destination register is BPF_REG_4/ecx and this patch removes them.

Specifically, when dest reg is BPF_REG_4 but the src isn't, we
needn't push and pop ecx around shift only to get it overwritten
by r11 immediately afterwards.

In the rare case when both dest and src registers are BPF_REG_4,
a single shift instruction is sufficient and we don't need the
two MOV instructions around the shift.

To summarize using shift left as an example, without patch:
-------------------------------------------------
            |   dst == ecx     |    dst != ecx
=================================================
src == ecx  |   mov r11, ecx   |    shl dst, cl
            |   shl r11, ecx   |
            |   mov ecx, r11   |
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx  |   mov r11, ecx   |    push ecx
            |   push ecx       |    mov ecx, src
            |   mov ecx, src   |    shl dst, cl
            |   shl r11, cl    |    pop ecx
            |   pop ecx        |
            |   mov ecx, r11   |
-------------------------------------------------

With patch:
-------------------------------------------------
            |   dst == ecx     |    dst != ecx
=================================================
src == ecx  |   shl ecx, cl    |    shl dst, cl
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx  |   mov r11, ecx   |    push ecx
            |   mov ecx, src   |    mov ecx, src
            |   shl r11, cl    |    shl dst, cl
            |   mov ecx, r11   |    pop ecx
-------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Jie Meng &lt;jmeng@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221007202348.1118830-2-jmeng@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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x64 JIT produces redundant instructions when a shift operation's
destination register is BPF_REG_4/ecx and this patch removes them.

Specifically, when dest reg is BPF_REG_4 but the src isn't, we
needn't push and pop ecx around shift only to get it overwritten
by r11 immediately afterwards.

In the rare case when both dest and src registers are BPF_REG_4,
a single shift instruction is sufficient and we don't need the
two MOV instructions around the shift.

To summarize using shift left as an example, without patch:
-------------------------------------------------
            |   dst == ecx     |    dst != ecx
=================================================
src == ecx  |   mov r11, ecx   |    shl dst, cl
            |   shl r11, ecx   |
            |   mov ecx, r11   |
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx  |   mov r11, ecx   |    push ecx
            |   push ecx       |    mov ecx, src
            |   mov ecx, src   |    shl dst, cl
            |   shl r11, cl    |    pop ecx
            |   pop ecx        |
            |   mov ecx, r11   |
-------------------------------------------------

With patch:
-------------------------------------------------
            |   dst == ecx     |    dst != ecx
=================================================
src == ecx  |   shl ecx, cl    |    shl dst, cl
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx  |   mov r11, ecx   |    push ecx
            |   mov ecx, src   |    mov ecx, src
            |   shl r11, cl    |    shl dst, cl
            |   mov ecx, r11   |    pop ecx
-------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Jie Meng &lt;jmeng@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221007202348.1118830-2-jmeng@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/ftrace: Make it call depth tracking aware</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T14:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T11:11:37+00:00</published>
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Since ftrace has trampolines, don't use thunks for the __fentry__ site
but instead require that every function called from there includes
accounting. This very much includes all the direct-call functions.

Additionally, ftrace uses ROP tricks in two places:

 - return_to_handler(), and
 - ftrace_regs_caller() when pt_regs-&gt;orig_ax is set by a direct-call.

return_to_handler() already uses a retpoline to replace an
indirect-jump to defeat IBT, since this is a jump-type retpoline, make
sure there is no accounting done and ALTERNATIVE the RET into a ret.

ftrace_regs_caller() does much the same and gets the same treatment.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111148.927545073@infradead.org
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<pre>
Since ftrace has trampolines, don't use thunks for the __fentry__ site
but instead require that every function called from there includes
accounting. This very much includes all the direct-call functions.

Additionally, ftrace uses ROP tricks in two places:

 - return_to_handler(), and
 - ftrace_regs_caller() when pt_regs-&gt;orig_ax is set by a direct-call.

return_to_handler() already uses a retpoline to replace an
indirect-jump to defeat IBT, since this is a jump-type retpoline, make
sure there is no accounting done and ALTERNATIVE the RET into a ret.

ftrace_regs_caller() does much the same and gets the same treatment.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111148.927545073@infradead.org
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