[PATCH v4 0/5] x86: two-phase syscall tracing and seccomp fastpath
Andy Lutomirski
luto at amacapital.net
Mon Jul 28 20:38:27 PDT 2014
This applies to:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git seccomp-fastpath
Gitweb:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=seccomp/fastpath
This is both a cleanup and a speedup. It reduces overhead due to
installing a trivial seccomp filter by 87%. The speedup comes from
avoiding the full syscall tracing mechanism for filters that don't
return SECCOMP_RET_TRACE.
This series depends on splitting the seccomp hooks into two phases.
The first phase evaluates the filter; it can skip syscalls, allow
them, kill the calling task, or pass a u32 to the second phase. The
second phase requires a full tracing context, and it sends ptrace
events if necessary. The seccomp core part is in Kees' seccomp/fastpath
tree.
These patches implement a similar split for the x86 syscall
entry work. The C callback is invoked in two phases: the first has
only a partial frame, and it can request phase 2 processing with a
full frame.
Finally, I switch the 64-bit system_call code to use the new split
entry work. This is a net deletion of assembly code: it replaces
all of the audit entry muck.
In the process, I fixed some bugs.
If this is acceptable, someone can do the same tweak for the
ia32entry and entry_32 code.
This passes all seccomp tests that I know of.
Changes from v3:
- Dropped the core seccomp changes from the email -- Kees has applied them.
- Add patch 2 (the TIF_NOHZ change).
- Fix TIF_NOHZ in the two-phase entry code (thanks, Oleg).
Changes from v2:
- Fixed 32-bit x86 build (and the tests pass).
- Put the doc patch where it belongs.
Changes from v1:
- Rebased on top of Kees' shiny new seccomp tree (no effect on the x86
part).
- Improved patch 6 vs patch 7 split (thanks Alexei!)
- Fixed bogus -ENOSYS in patch 5 (thanks Kees!)
- Improved changelog message in patch 6.
Changes from RFC version:
- The first three patches are more or less the same
- The rest is more or less a rewrite
Andy Lutomirski (5):
x86,x32,audit: Fix x32's AUDIT_ARCH wrt audit
x86,entry: Only call user_exit if TIF_NOHZ
x86: Split syscall_trace_enter into two phases
x86_64,entry: Treat regs->ax the same in fastpath and slowpath
syscalls
x86_64,entry: Use split-phase syscall_trace_enter for 64-bit syscalls
arch/x86/include/asm/calling.h | 6 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 5 ++
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 51 +++++--------
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 159 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
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