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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2024-03-12 09:49:52 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2024-03-12 09:55:57 +0100
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parentx86/sev: Move early startup code into .head.text section (diff)
parentMerge tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/boot, to resolve conflict
There's a new conflict with Linus's upstream tree, because in the following merge conflict resolution in <asm/coco.h>: 38b334fc767e Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Linus has resolved the conflicting placement of 'cc_mask' better than the original commit: 1c811d403afd x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code ... which was also done by an internal merge resolution: 2e5fc4786b7a Merge branch 'x86/sev' into x86/boot, to resolve conflicts and to pick up dependent tree But Linus is right in 38b334fc767e, the 'cc_mask' declaration is sufficient within the #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM block. So instead of forcing Linus to do the same resolution again, merge in Linus's tree and follow his conflict resolution. Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/coco.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/topology.rst24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fred.rst96
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/index.rst1
4 files changed, 109 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst
index e08d35177bc0..57e8392f61d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ comments in pti.c).
This approach helps to ensure that side-channel attacks leveraging
the paging structures do not function when PTI is enabled. It can be
-enabled by setting CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y at compile time.
-Once enabled at compile-time, it can be disabled at boot with the
-'nopti' or 'pti=' kernel parameters (see kernel-parameters.txt).
+enabled by setting CONFIG_MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y at compile
+time. Once enabled at compile-time, it can be disabled at boot with
+the 'nopti' or 'pti=' kernel parameters (see kernel-parameters.txt).
Page Table Management
=====================
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/topology.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/topology.rst
index 08ebf9edbfc1..7352ab89a55a 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/topology.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/topology.rst
@@ -47,17 +47,21 @@ AMD nomenclature for package is 'Node'.
Package-related topology information in the kernel:
- - cpuinfo_x86.x86_max_cores:
+ - topology_num_threads_per_package()
- The number of cores in a package. This information is retrieved via CPUID.
+ The number of threads in a package.
- - cpuinfo_x86.x86_max_dies:
+ - topology_num_cores_per_package()
- The number of dies in a package. This information is retrieved via CPUID.
+ The number of cores in a package.
+
+ - topology_max_dies_per_package()
+
+ The maximum number of dies in a package.
- cpuinfo_x86.topo.die_id:
- The physical ID of the die. This information is retrieved via CPUID.
+ The physical ID of the die.
- cpuinfo_x86.topo.pkg_id:
@@ -96,16 +100,6 @@ are SMT- or CMT-type threads.
AMDs nomenclature for a CMT core is "Compute Unit". The kernel always uses
"core".
-Core-related topology information in the kernel:
-
- - smp_num_siblings:
-
- The number of threads in a core. The number of threads in a package can be
- calculated by::
-
- threads_per_package = cpuinfo_x86.x86_max_cores * smp_num_siblings
-
-
Threads
=======
A thread is a single scheduling unit. It's the equivalent to a logical Linux
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fred.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fred.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9f57e7b91f7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fred.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=========================================
+Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED)
+=========================================
+
+Overview
+========
+
+The FRED architecture defines simple new transitions that change
+privilege level (ring transitions). The FRED architecture was
+designed with the following goals:
+
+1) Improve overall performance and response time by replacing event
+ delivery through the interrupt descriptor table (IDT event
+ delivery) and event return by the IRET instruction with lower
+ latency transitions.
+
+2) Improve software robustness by ensuring that event delivery
+ establishes the full supervisor context and that event return
+ establishes the full user context.
+
+The new transitions defined by the FRED architecture are FRED event
+delivery and, for returning from events, two FRED return instructions.
+FRED event delivery can effect a transition from ring 3 to ring 0, but
+it is used also to deliver events incident to ring 0. One FRED
+instruction (ERETU) effects a return from ring 0 to ring 3, while the
+other (ERETS) returns while remaining in ring 0. Collectively, FRED
+event delivery and the FRED return instructions are FRED transitions.
+
+In addition to these transitions, the FRED architecture defines a new
+instruction (LKGS) for managing the state of the GS segment register.
+The LKGS instruction can be used by 64-bit operating systems that do
+not use the new FRED transitions.
+
+Furthermore, the FRED architecture is easy to extend for future CPU
+architectures.
+
+Software based event dispatching
+================================
+
+FRED operates differently from IDT in terms of event handling. Instead
+of directly dispatching an event to its handler based on the event
+vector, FRED requires the software to dispatch an event to its handler
+based on both the event's type and vector. Therefore, an event dispatch
+framework must be implemented to facilitate the event-to-handler
+dispatch process. The FRED event dispatch framework takes control
+once an event is delivered, and employs a two-level dispatch.
+
+The first level dispatching is event type based, and the second level
+dispatching is event vector based.
+
+Full supervisor/user context
+============================
+
+FRED event delivery atomically save and restore full supervisor/user
+context upon event delivery and return. Thus it avoids the problem of
+transient states due to %cr2 and/or %dr6, and it is no longer needed
+to handle all the ugly corner cases caused by half baked entry states.
+
+FRED allows explicit unblock of NMI with new event return instructions
+ERETS/ERETU, avoiding the mess caused by IRET which unconditionally
+unblocks NMI, e.g., when an exception happens during NMI handling.
+
+FRED always restores the full value of %rsp, thus ESPFIX is no longer
+needed when FRED is enabled.
+
+LKGS
+====
+
+LKGS behaves like the MOV to GS instruction except that it loads the
+base address into the IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR instead of the GS
+segment’s descriptor cache. With LKGS, it ends up with avoiding
+mucking with kernel GS, i.e., an operating system can always operate
+with its own GS base address.
+
+Because FRED event delivery from ring 3 and ERETU both swap the value
+of the GS base address and that of the IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR, plus
+the introduction of LKGS instruction, the SWAPGS instruction is no
+longer needed when FRED is enabled, thus is disallowed (#UD).
+
+Stack levels
+============
+
+4 stack levels 0~3 are introduced to replace the nonreentrant IST for
+event handling, and each stack level should be configured to use a
+dedicated stack.
+
+The current stack level could be unchanged or go higher upon FRED
+event delivery. If unchanged, the CPU keeps using the current event
+stack. If higher, the CPU switches to a new event stack specified by
+the MSR of the new stack level, i.e., MSR_IA32_FRED_RSP[123].
+
+Only execution of a FRED return instruction ERET[US], could lower the
+current stack level, causing the CPU to switch back to the stack it was
+on before a previous event delivery that promoted the stack level.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/index.rst
index a56070fc8e77..ad15e9bd623f 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/index.rst
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ x86_64 Support
cpu-hotplug-spec
machinecheck
fsgs
+ fred