linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
/*
* Access to the shared data page by the vDSO & syscall map
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Benjamin Herrenschmuidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org), IBM Corp.
*/
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/ppc_asm.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <asm/vdso.h>
#include <asm/vdso_datapage.h>
.text
powerpc/vdso: Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() powerpc has a link register (lr) used for calling functions. We "bl <func>" to call a function, and "blr" to return back to the call site. The lr is only a single register, so if we call another function from inside this function (ie. nested calls), software must save away the lr on the software stack before calling the new function. Before returning (ie. before the "blr"), the lr is restored by software from the software stack. This makes branch prediction quite difficult for the processor as it will only know the branch target just before the "blr". To help with this, modern powerpc processors keep a (non-architected) hardware stack of lr called a "link stack". When a "bl <func>" is run, the lr is pushed onto this stack. When a "blr" is called, the branch predictor pops the lr value from the top of the link stack, and uses it to predict the branch target. Hence the processor pipeline knows a lot earlier the branch target. This works great but there are some cases where you call "bl" but without a matching "blr". Once such case is when trying to determine the program counter (which can't be read directly). Here you "bl+4; mflr" to get the program counter. If you do this, the link stack will get out of sync with reality, causing the branch predictor to mis-predict subsequent function returns. To avoid this, modern micro-architectures have a special case of bl. Using the form "bcl 20,31,+4", ensures the processor doesn't push to the link stack. The 32 and 64 bit variants of __get_datapage() use a "bl; mflr" to determine the loaded address of the VDSO. The current versions of these attempt to use this special bl variant. Unfortunately they use +8 rather than the required +4. Hence the current code results in the link stack getting out of sync with reality and hence the resulting performance degradation. This patch moves it to bcl+4 by moving __kernel_datapage_offset out of __get_datapage(). With this patch, running a gettimeofday() (which uses __get_datapage()) microbenchmark we get a decent bump in performance on POWER7/8. For the benchmark in tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/gettimeofday.c POWER8: 64bit gets ~4% improvement 32bit gets ~9% improvement POWER7: 64bit gets ~7% improvement Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reported-by: Aaron Sawdey <sawdey@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-09-25 12:01:40 +08:00
/*
* void *__kernel_get_syscall_map(unsigned int *syscall_count) ;
*
* returns a pointer to the syscall map. the map is agnostic to the
* size of "long", unlike kernel bitops, it stores bits from top to
* bottom so that memory actually contains a linear bitmap
* check for syscall N by testing bit (0x80000000 >> (N & 0x1f)) of
* 32 bits int at N >> 5.
*/
V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_get_syscall_map)
.cfi_startproc
mflr r12
.cfi_register lr,r12
mr r4,r3
get_datapage r3
mtlr r12
addi r3,r3,CFG_SYSCALL_MAP64
cmpldi cr0,r4,0
crclr cr0*4+so
beqlr
li r0,NR_syscalls
stw r0,0(r4)
blr
.cfi_endproc
V_FUNCTION_END(__kernel_get_syscall_map)
/*
* void unsigned long __kernel_get_tbfreq(void);
*
* returns the timebase frequency in HZ
*/
V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_get_tbfreq)
.cfi_startproc
mflr r12
.cfi_register lr,r12
get_datapage r3
ld r3,CFG_TB_TICKS_PER_SEC(r3)
mtlr r12
crclr cr0*4+so
blr
.cfi_endproc
V_FUNCTION_END(__kernel_get_tbfreq)