x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()

In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
  >
  > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
  > >
  > > However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  > > It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  > > looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  > > caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  > > for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  >
  > Right.
  >
  > And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  > generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  > for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  > artifact of the architecture oddity.
  >
  > In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  > but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  > having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
index 86dbe0c8b45c..9fc18fadacc6 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ do {								\
 #define pmem_assign(dest, src)	((dest) = (src))
 #endif
 
-#if defined(__HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY_MCSAFE) && defined(DM_WRITECACHE_HAS_PMEM)
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC) && defined(DM_WRITECACHE_HAS_PMEM)
 #define DM_WRITECACHE_HANDLE_HARDWARE_ERRORS
 #endif
 
@@ -984,7 +984,8 @@ static void writecache_resume(struct dm_target *ti)
 	}
 	wc->freelist_size = 0;
 
-	r = memcpy_mcsafe(&sb_seq_count, &sb(wc)->seq_count, sizeof(uint64_t));
+	r = copy_mc_to_kernel(&sb_seq_count, &sb(wc)->seq_count,
+			      sizeof(uint64_t));
 	if (r) {
 		writecache_error(wc, r, "hardware memory error when reading superblock: %d", r);
 		sb_seq_count = cpu_to_le64(0);
@@ -1000,7 +1001,8 @@ static void writecache_resume(struct dm_target *ti)
 			e->seq_count = -1;
 			continue;
 		}
-		r = memcpy_mcsafe(&wme, memory_entry(wc, e), sizeof(struct wc_memory_entry));
+		r = copy_mc_to_kernel(&wme, memory_entry(wc, e),
+				      sizeof(struct wc_memory_entry));
 		if (r) {
 			writecache_error(wc, r, "hardware memory error when reading metadata entry %lu: %d",
 					 (unsigned long)b, r);
@@ -1198,7 +1200,7 @@ static void bio_copy_block(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct bio *bio, void *data
 
 		if (rw == READ) {
 			int r;
-			r = memcpy_mcsafe(buf, data, size);
+			r = copy_mc_to_kernel(buf, data, size);
 			flush_dcache_page(bio_page(bio));
 			if (unlikely(r)) {
 				writecache_error(wc, r, "hardware memory error when reading data: %d", r);
@@ -2341,7 +2343,7 @@ invalid_optional:
 		}
 	}
 
-	r = memcpy_mcsafe(&s, sb(wc), sizeof(struct wc_memory_superblock));
+	r = copy_mc_to_kernel(&s, sb(wc), sizeof(struct wc_memory_superblock));
 	if (r) {
 		ti->error = "Hardware memory error when reading superblock";
 		goto bad;
@@ -2352,7 +2354,8 @@ invalid_optional:
 			ti->error = "Unable to initialize device";
 			goto bad;
 		}
-		r = memcpy_mcsafe(&s, sb(wc), sizeof(struct wc_memory_superblock));
+		r = copy_mc_to_kernel(&s, sb(wc),
+				      sizeof(struct wc_memory_superblock));
 		if (r) {
 			ti->error = "Hardware memory error when reading superblock";
 			goto bad;