x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode

Since commit:

  94b1b03b519b ("x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking")

x86's lazy TLB mode has been all the way lazy: when running a kernel thread
(including the idle thread), the kernel keeps using the last user mm's
page tables without attempting to maintain user TLB coherence at all.

From a pure semantic perspective, this is fine -- kernel threads won't
attempt to access user pages, so having stale TLB entries doesn't matter.

Unfortunately, I forgot about a subtlety.  By skipping TLB flushes,
we also allow any paging-structure caches that may exist on the CPU
to become incoherent.  This means that we can have a
paging-structure cache entry that references a freed page table, and
the CPU is within its rights to do a speculative page walk starting
at the freed page table.

I can imagine this causing two different problems:

 - A speculative page walk starting from a bogus page table could read
   IO addresses.  I haven't seen any reports of this causing problems.

 - A speculative page walk that involves a bogus page table can install
   garbage in the TLB.  Such garbage would always be at a user VA, but
   some AMD CPUs have logic that triggers a machine check when it notices
   these bogus entries.  I've seen a couple reports of this.

Boris further explains the failure mode:

> It is actually more of an optimization which assumes that paging-structure
> entries are in WB DRAM:
>
> "TlbCacheDis: cacheable memory disable. Read-write. 0=Enables
> performance optimization that assumes PML4, PDP, PDE, and PTE entries
> are in cacheable WB-DRAM; memory type checks may be bypassed, and
> addresses outside of WB-DRAM may result in undefined behavior or NB
> protocol errors. 1=Disables performance optimization and allows PML4,
> PDP, PDE and PTE entries to be in any memory type. Operating systems
> that maintain page tables in memory types other than WB- DRAM must set
> TlbCacheDis to insure proper operation."
>
> The MCE generated is an NB protocol error to signal that
>
> "Link: A specific coherent-only packet from a CPU was issued to an
> IO link. This may be caused by software which addresses page table
> structures in a memory type other than cacheable WB-DRAM without
> properly configuring MSRC001_0015[TlbCacheDis]. This may occur, for
> example, when page table structure addresses are above top of memory. In
> such cases, the NB will generate an MCE if it sees a mismatch between
> the memory operation generated by the core and the link type."
>
> I'm assuming coherent-only packets don't go out on IO links, thus the
> error.

To fix this, reinstate TLB coherence in lazy mode.  With this patch
applied, we do it in one of two ways:

 - If we have PCID, we simply switch back to init_mm's page tables
   when we enter a kernel thread -- this seems to be quite cheap
   except for the cost of serializing the CPU.

 - If we don't have PCID, then we set a flag and switch to init_mm
   the first time we would otherwise need to flush the TLB.

The /sys/kernel/debug/x86/tlb_use_lazy_mode debug switch can be changed
to override the default mode for benchmarking.

In theory, we could optimize this better by only flushing the TLB in
lazy CPUs when a page table is freed.  Doing that would require
auditing the mm code to make sure that all page table freeing goes
through tlb_remove_page() as well as reworking some data structures
to implement the improved flush logic.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Reported-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 94b1b03b519b ("x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009170231.fkpraqokz6e4zeco@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 4893abf7f74f..d362161d3291 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm)
 #endif
 
 /*
+ * If tlb_use_lazy_mode is true, then we try to avoid switching CR3 to point
+ * to init_mm when we switch to a kernel thread (e.g. the idle thread).  If
+ * it's false, then we immediately switch CR3 when entering a kernel thread.
+ */
+DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(tlb_use_lazy_mode);
+
+/*
  * 6 because 6 should be plenty and struct tlb_state will fit in
  * two cache lines.
  */
@@ -105,6 +112,23 @@ struct tlb_state {
 	u16 next_asid;
 
 	/*
+	 * We can be in one of several states:
+	 *
+	 *  - Actively using an mm.  Our CPU's bit will be set in
+	 *    mm_cpumask(loaded_mm) and is_lazy == false;
+	 *
+	 *  - Not using a real mm.  loaded_mm == &init_mm.  Our CPU's bit
+	 *    will not be set in mm_cpumask(&init_mm) and is_lazy == false.
+	 *
+	 *  - Lazily using a real mm.  loaded_mm != &init_mm, our bit
+	 *    is set in mm_cpumask(loaded_mm), but is_lazy == true.
+	 *    We're heuristically guessing that the CR3 load we
+	 *    skipped more than makes up for the overhead added by
+	 *    lazy mode.
+	 */
+	bool is_lazy;
+
+	/*
 	 * Access to this CR4 shadow and to H/W CR4 is protected by
 	 * disabling interrupts when modifying either one.
 	 */