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| author | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2018-04-06 13:55:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-04-12 09:06:00 +0200 |
| commit | 8c06c7740d191b9055cb9be920579d5ecdd26303 (patch) | |
| tree | df1e3e869969f4b7ee92e28840c26cffda376351 /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | 39114b7a743e6759bab4d96b7d9651d44d17e3f9 (diff) | |
x86/pti: Leave kernel text global for !PCID
Global pages are bad for hardening because they potentially let an
exploit read the kernel image via a Meltdown-style attack which
makes it easier to find gadgets.
But, global pages are good for performance because they reduce TLB
misses when making user/kernel transitions, especially when PCIDs
are not available, such as on older hardware, or where a hypervisor
has disabled them for some reason.
This patch implements a basic, sane policy: If you have PCIDs, you
only map a minimal amount of kernel text global. If you do not have
PCIDs, you map all kernel text global.
This policy effectively makes PCIDs something that not only adds
performance but a little bit of hardening as well.
I ran a simple "lseek" microbenchmark[1] to test the benefit on
a modern Atom microserver. Most of the benefit comes from applying
the series before this patch ("entry only"), but there is still a
signifiant benefit from this patch.
No Global Lines (baseline ): 6077741 lseeks/sec
88 Global Lines (entry only): 7528609 lseeks/sec (+23.9%)
94 Global Lines (this patch): 8433111 lseeks/sec (+38.8%)
[1.] https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/lseek1.c
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205518.E3D989EB@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/pti.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pti.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pti.h index 0b5ef05b2d2d..38a17f1d5c9d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pti.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pti.h @@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION extern void pti_init(void); extern void pti_check_boottime_disable(void); +extern void pti_clone_kernel_text(void); #else static inline void pti_check_boottime_disable(void) { } +static inline void pti_clone_kernel_text(void) { } #endif #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ |