[PATCH v2] arm64: mte: avoid clearing PSTATE.TCO on entry unless necessary

Peter Collingbourne pcc at google.com
Wed Nov 10 14:07:35 PST 2021


On some microarchitectures, clearing PSTATE.TCO is expensive. Clearing
TCO is only necessary if in-kernel MTE is enabled, or if MTE is
enabled in the userspace process in synchronous (or, soon, asymmetric)
mode, because we do not report uaccess faults to userspace in none
or asynchronous modes. Therefore, adjust the kernel entry code to
clear TCO only if necessary.

Because it is now possible to switch to a task in which TCO needs to
be clear from a task in which TCO is set, we also need to do the same
thing on task switch.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I52d82a580bd0500d420be501af2c35fa8c90729e
---
v2:
- do the same thing in cpu_switch_to()

 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 2f69ae43941d..a78ec15f5bbc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -189,6 +189,27 @@ alternative_cb_end
 #endif
 	.endm
 
+	.macro mte_clear_tco, sctlr
+	/*
+	 * Re-enable tag checking (TCO set on exception entry). This is only
+	 * necessary if MTE is enabled in either the kernel or the userspace
+	 * task in synchronous mode. With MTE disabled in the kernel and
+	 * disabled or asynchronous in userspace, tag check faults (including in
+	 * uaccesses) are not reported, therefore there is no need to re-enable
+	 * checking. This is beneficial on microarchitectures where re-enabling
+	 * TCO is expensive.
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MTE
+alternative_cb	kasan_hw_tags_enable
+	tbz	\sctlr, #SCTLR_EL1_TCF0_SHIFT, 1f
+alternative_cb_end
+alternative_if ARM64_MTE
+	SET_PSTATE_TCO(0)
+alternative_else_nop_endif
+1:
+#endif
+	.endm
+
 	.macro	kernel_entry, el, regsize = 64
 	.if	\regsize == 32
 	mov	w0, w0				// zero upper 32 bits of x0
@@ -269,7 +290,11 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
 	.else
 	add	x21, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
 	get_current_task tsk
+	ldr	x0, [tsk, THREAD_SCTLR_USER]
 	.endif /* \el == 0 */
+
+	mte_clear_tco	x0
+
 	mrs	x22, elr_el1
 	mrs	x23, spsr_el1
 	stp	lr, x21, [sp, #S_LR]
@@ -308,13 +333,6 @@ alternative_if ARM64_HAS_IRQ_PRIO_MASKING
 	msr_s	SYS_ICC_PMR_EL1, x20
 alternative_else_nop_endif
 
-	/* Re-enable tag checking (TCO set on exception entry) */
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MTE
-alternative_if ARM64_MTE
-	SET_PSTATE_TCO(0)
-alternative_else_nop_endif
-#endif
-
 	/*
 	 * Registers that may be useful after this macro is invoked:
 	 *
@@ -742,6 +760,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(cpu_switch_to)
 	ptrauth_keys_install_kernel x1, x8, x9, x10
 	scs_save x0
 	scs_load x1
+	ldr	x8, [x1, THREAD_SCTLR_USER]
+	mte_clear_tco	x8
 	ret
 SYM_FUNC_END(cpu_switch_to)
 NOKPROBE(cpu_switch_to)
-- 
2.34.0.rc0.344.g81b53c2807-goog




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