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Dave Hansen f3d2b767e9 x86/mm/pti: Prepare the x86/entry assembly code for entry/exit CR3 switching 
commit 8a09317b89 upstream.

PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION needs to switch to a different CR3 value when it
enters the kernel and switch back when it exits.  This essentially needs to
be done before leaving assembly code.

This is extra challenging because the switching context is tricky: the
registers that can be clobbered can vary.  It is also hard to store things
on the stack because there is an established ABI (ptregs) or the stack is
entirely unsafe to use.

Establish a set of macros that allow changing to the user and kernel CR3
values.

Interactions with SWAPGS:

  Previous versions of the PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION code relied on having
  per-CPU scratch space to save/restore a register that can be used for the
  CR3 MOV.  The %GS register is used to index into our per-CPU space, so
  SWAPGS *had* to be done before the CR3 switch.  That scratch space is gone
  now, but the semantic that SWAPGS must be done before the CR3 MOV is
  retained.  This is good to keep because it is not that hard to do and it
  allows to do things like add per-CPU debugging information.

What this does in the NMI code is worth pointing out.  NMIs can interrupt
*any* context and they can also be nested with NMIs interrupting other
NMIs.  The comments below ".Lnmi_from_kernel" explain the format of the
stack during this situation.  Changing the format of this stack is hard.
Instead of storing the old CR3 value on the stack, this depends on the
*regular* register save/restore mechanism and then uses %r14 to keep CR3
during the NMI.  It is callee-saved and will not be clobbered by the C NMI
handlers that get called.

[ PeterZ: ESPFIX optimization ]

Based-on-code-from: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-01-02 20:30:56 +01:00
arch x86/mm/pti: Prepare the x86/entry assembly code for entry/exit CR3 switching 2018-01-02 20:30:56 +01:00
block block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-29 17:53:47 +01:00
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: af_alg - fix race accessing cipher request 2017-12-29 17:53:46 +01:00
Documentation x86/cpu_entry_area: Move it out of the fixmap 2017-12-29 17:53:45 +01:00
drivers Revert "ipmi_si: fix memory leak on new_smi" 2017-12-29 17:53:49 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-12-25 14:26:21 +01:00
include block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-29 17:53:47 +01:00
init init: Invoke init_espfix_bsp() from mm_init() 2017-12-29 17:53:45 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel tracing: Fix crash when it fails to alloc ring buffer 2018-01-02 20:30:55 +01:00
lib x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-12-25 14:26:13 +01:00
mm mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y 2017-12-25 14:26:31 +01:00
net Revert "ipv6: grab rt->rt6i_ref before allocating pcpu rt" 2017-12-29 17:53:41 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts linux/compiler.h: Split into compiler.h and compiler_types.h 2017-12-25 14:26:33 +01:00
security apparmor: fix leak of null profile name if profile allocation fails 2017-12-14 09:53:06 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix the missing ctl name suffix at parsing SU 2017-12-29 17:53:47 +01:00
tools x86/ldt: Prevent LDT inheritance on exec 2017-12-29 17:53:43 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix HYP unmapping going off limits 2017-12-29 17:53:48 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.10 2017-12-29 17:53:50 +01:00
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.