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authorAndrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>2005-06-27 14:36:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-27 15:11:44 -0700
commitffaa8bd6c904d1ab79b677905067349a5ff51d84 (patch)
treeec7960440a7d7700e15bf2e34453db448b808c5e /arch/i386/kernel
parent6ae3db110e62b0846aae1b5c6e661484ee3a5ed1 (diff)
[PATCH] seccomp: tsc disable
I believe at least for seccomp it's worth to turn off the tsc, not just for HT but for the L2 cache too. So it's up to you, either you turn it off completely (which isn't very nice IMHO) or I recommend to apply this below patch. This has been tested successfully on x86-64 against current cogito repository (i686 compiles so I didn't bother testing ;). People selling the cpu through cpushare may appreciate this bit for a peace of mind. There's no way to get any timing info anymore with this applied (gettimeofday is forbidden of course). The seccomp environment is completely deterministic so it can't be allowed to get timing info, it has to be deterministic so in the future I can enable a computing mode that does a parallel computing for each task with server side transparent checkpointing and verification that the output is the same from all the 2/3 seller computers for each task, without the buyer even noticing (for now the verification is left to the buyer client side and there's no checkpointing, since that would require more kernel changes to track the dirty bits but it'll be easy to extend once the basic mode is finished). Eliminating a cold-cache read of the cr4 global variable will save one cacheline during the tlb flush while making the code per-cpu-safe at the same time. Thanks to Mikael Pettersson for noticing the tlb flush wasn't per-cpu-safe. The global tlb flush can run from irq (IPI calling do_flush_tlb_all) but it'll be transparent to the switch_to code since the IPI won't make any change to the cr4 contents from the point of view of the interrupted code and since it's now all per-cpu stuff, it will not race. So no need to disable irqs in switch_to slow path. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/process.c29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
index 5f8cfa6b794..ba243a4cc11 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -617,6 +617,33 @@ handle_io_bitmap(struct thread_struct *next, struct tss_struct *tss)
}
/*
+ * This function selects if the context switch from prev to next
+ * has to tweak the TSC disable bit in the cr4.
+ */
+static inline void disable_tsc(struct task_struct *prev_p,
+ struct task_struct *next_p)
+{
+ struct thread_info *prev, *next;
+
+ /*
+ * gcc should eliminate the ->thread_info dereference if
+ * has_secure_computing returns 0 at compile time (SECCOMP=n).
+ */
+ prev = prev_p->thread_info;
+ next = next_p->thread_info;
+
+ if (has_secure_computing(prev) || has_secure_computing(next)) {
+ /* slow path here */
+ if (has_secure_computing(prev) &&
+ !has_secure_computing(next)) {
+ write_cr4(read_cr4() & ~X86_CR4_TSD);
+ } else if (!has_secure_computing(prev) &&
+ has_secure_computing(next))
+ write_cr4(read_cr4() | X86_CR4_TSD);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
* switch_to(x,yn) should switch tasks from x to y.
*
* We fsave/fwait so that an exception goes off at the right time
@@ -695,6 +722,8 @@ struct task_struct fastcall * __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct tas
if (unlikely(prev->io_bitmap_ptr || next->io_bitmap_ptr))
handle_io_bitmap(next, tss);
+ disable_tsc(prev_p, next_p);
+
return prev_p;
}