x86: Remove dynamic NOP selection

This ensures that a NOP is a NOP and not a random other instruction that
is also a NOP. It allows simplification of dynamic code patching that
wants to verify existing code before writing new instructions (ftrace,
jump_label, static_call, etc..).

Differentiating on NOPs is not a feature.

This pessimises 32bit (DONTCARE) and 32bit on 64bit CPUs (CARELESS).
32bit is not a performance target.

Everything x86_64 since AMD K10 (2007) and Intel IvyBridge (2012) is
fine with using NOPL (as opposed to prefix NOP). And per FEATURE_NOPL
being required for x86_64, all x86_64 CPUs can use NOPL. So stop
caring about NOPs, simplify things and get on with life.

[ The problem seems to be that some uarchs can only decode NOPL on a
single front-end port while others have severe decode penalties for
excessive prefixes. All modern uarchs can handle both, except Atom,
which has prefix penalties. ]

[ Also, much doubt you can actually measure any of this on normal
workloads. ]

After this, FEATURE_NOPL is unused except for required-features for
x86_64. FEATURE_K8 is only used for PTI.

 [ bp: Kernel build measurements showed ~0.3s slowdown on Sandybridge
   which is hardly a slowdown. Get rid of X86_FEATURE_K7, while at it. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> # bpf
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210312115749.065275711@infradead.org

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index 79e7a0ec1da5..6aa29c45c3f9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void emit_prologue(u8 **pprog, u32 stack_depth, bool ebpf_from_cbpf,
 	/* BPF trampoline can be made to work without these nops,
 	 * but let's waste 5 bytes for now and optimize later
 	 */
-	memcpy(prog, ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5], cnt);
+	memcpy(prog, x86_nops[5], cnt);
 	prog += cnt;
 	if (!ebpf_from_cbpf) {
 		if (tail_call_reachable && !is_subprog)
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static int __bpf_arch_text_poke(void *ip, enum bpf_text_poke_type t,
 				void *old_addr, void *new_addr,
 				const bool text_live)
 {
-	const u8 *nop_insn = ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5];
+	const u8 *nop_insn = x86_nops[5];
 	u8 old_insn[X86_PATCH_SIZE];
 	u8 new_insn[X86_PATCH_SIZE];
 	u8 *prog;
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static void emit_bpf_tail_call_direct(struct bpf_jit_poke_descriptor *poke,
 	if (stack_depth)
 		EMIT3_off32(0x48, 0x81, 0xC4, round_up(stack_depth, 8));
 
-	memcpy(prog, ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5], X86_PATCH_SIZE);
+	memcpy(prog, x86_nops[5], X86_PATCH_SIZE);
 	prog += X86_PATCH_SIZE;
 	/* out: */
 
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ static int emit_nops(u8 **pprog, int len)
 			noplen = ASM_NOP_MAX;
 
 		for (i = 0; i < noplen; i++)
-			EMIT1(ideal_nops[noplen][i]);
+			EMIT1(x86_nops[noplen][i]);
 		len -= noplen;
 	}