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Arnd Bergmann 7cae67e312 crypto: aes-generic - build with -Os on gcc-7+ 
[ Upstream commit 148b974dee ]

While testing other changes, I discovered that gcc-7.2.1 produces badly
optimized code for aes_encrypt/aes_decrypt. This is especially true when
CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL is enabled, where it leads to extremely
large stack usage that in turn might cause kernel stack overflows:

crypto/aes_generic.c: In function 'aes_encrypt':
crypto/aes_generic.c:1371:1: warning: the frame size of 4880 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
crypto/aes_generic.c: In function 'aes_decrypt':
crypto/aes_generic.c:1441:1: warning: the frame size of 4864 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

I verified that this problem exists on all architectures that are
supported by gcc-7.2, though arm64 in particular is less affected than
the others. I also found that gcc-7.1 and gcc-8 do not show the extreme
stack usage but still produce worse code than earlier versions for this
file, apparently because of optimization passes that generally provide
a substantial improvement in object code quality but understandably fail
to find any shortcuts in the AES algorithm.

Possible workarounds include

a) disabling -ftree-pre and -ftree-sra optimizations, this was an earlier
   patch I tried, which reliably fixed the stack usage, but caused a
   serious performance regression in some versions, as later testing
   found.

b) disabling UBSAN on this file or all ciphers, as suggested by Ard
   Biesheuvel. This would lead to massively better crypto performance in
   UBSAN-enabled kernels and avoid the stack usage, but there is a concern
   over whether we should exclude arbitrary files from UBSAN at all.

c) Forcing the optimization level in a different way. Similar to a),
   but rather than deselecting specific optimization stages,
   this now uses "gcc -Os" for this file, regardless of the
   CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE/SIZE option. This is a reliable
   workaround for the stack consumption on all architecture, and I've
   retested the performance results now on x86, cycles/byte (lower is
   better) for cbc(aes-generic) with 256 bit keys:

			-O2     -Os
	gcc-6.3.1	14.9	15.1
	gcc-7.0.1	14.7	15.3
	gcc-7.1.1	15.3	14.7
	gcc-7.2.1	16.8	15.9
	gcc-8.0.0	15.5	15.6

This implements the option c) by enabling forcing -Os on all compiler
versions starting with gcc-7.1. As a workaround for PR83356, it would
only be needed for gcc-7.2+ with UBSAN enabled, but since it also shows
better performance on gcc-7.1 without UBSAN, it seems appropriate to
use the faster version here as well.

Side note: during testing, I also played with the AES code in libressl,
which had a similar performance regression from gcc-6 to gcc-7.2,
but was three times slower overall. It might be interesting to
investigate that further and possibly port the Linux implementation
into that.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83356
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83651
Cc: Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-04-12 12:32:20 +02:00
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block block, bfq: put async queues for root bfq groups too 2018-04-12 12:32:19 +02:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: aes-generic - build with -Os on gcc-7+ 2018-04-12 12:32:20 +02:00
Documentation serial: 8250: Add Nuvoton NPCM UART 2018-04-08 14:26:30 +02:00
drivers mtd: mtd_oobtest: Handle bitflips during reads 2018-04-12 12:32:20 +02:00
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fs VFS: close race between getcwd() and d_move() 2018-04-12 12:32:13 +02:00
include net/mlx5: Fix race for multiple RoCE enable 2018-04-12 12:32:17 +02:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_ops 2018-04-08 14:26:27 +02:00
kernel perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation 2018-04-08 14:26:27 +02:00
lib rhashtable: Fix rhlist duplicates insertion 2018-03-31 18:10:40 +02:00
mm percpu: add __GFP_NORETRY semantics to the percpu balancing path 2018-04-08 14:26:29 +02:00
net mac80211: Fix setting TX power on monitor interfaces 2018-04-12 12:32:15 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts kbuild: fix linker feature test macros when cross compiling with Clang 2018-03-24 11:01:29 +01:00
security /dev/mem: Add bounce buffer for copy-out 2018-03-24 11:01:24 +01:00
sound ASoC: Intel: sst: Fix the return value of 'sst_send_byte_stream_mrfld()' 2018-04-12 12:32:17 +02:00
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usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't populate multiple LRs with the same vintid 2018-03-21 12:06:43 +01:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.33 2018-04-08 14:26:34 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.