from the top of user memory to one page lower on machines with the
Ryzen (AMD Family 17h) CPU. This pushes ps_strings and the stack
down by one page as well. On Ryzen there is some sort of interaction
between code running at the top of user memory address space and
interrupts that can cause FreeBSD to either hang or silently reset.
This sounds similar to the problem found with DragonFly BSD that
was fixed with this commit:
https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/b48dd28447fc8ef62fbc963accd301557fd9ac20
but our signal trampoline location was already lower than the address
that DragonFly moved their signal trampoline to. It also does not
appear to be related to SMT as described here:
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/processors-memory/955368-some-ryzen-linux-users-are-facing-issues-with-heavy-compilation-loads?p=955498#post955498
"Hi, Matt Dillon here. Yes, I did find what I believe to be a
hardware issue with Ryzen related to concurrent operations. In a
nutshell, for any given hyperthread pair, if one hyperthread is
in a cpu-bound loop of any kind (can be in user mode), and the
other hyperthread is returning from an interrupt via IRETQ, the
hyperthread issuing the IRETQ can stall indefinitely until the
other hyperthread with the cpu-bound loop pauses (aka HLT until
next interrupt). After this situation occurs, the system appears
to destabilize. The situation does not occur if the cpu-bound
loop is on a different core than the core doing the IRETQ. The
%rip the IRETQ returns to (e.g. userland %rip address) matters a
*LOT*. The problem occurs more often with high %rip addresses
such as near the top of the user stack, which is where DragonFly's
signal trampoline traditionally resides. So a user program taking
a signal on one thread while another thread is cpu-bound can cause
this behavior. Changing the location of the signal trampoline
makes it more difficult to reproduce the problem. I have not
been because the able to completely mitigate it. When a cpu-thread
stalls in this manner it appears to stall INSIDE the microcode
for IRETQ. It doesn't make it to the return pc, and the cpu thread
cannot take any IPIs or other hardware interrupts while in this
state."
since the system instability has been observed on FreeBSD with SMT
disabled. Interrupts to appear to play a factor since running a
signal-intensive process on the first CPU core, which handles most
of the interrupts on my machine, is far more likely to trigger the
problem than running such a process on any other core.
Also lower sv_maxuser to prevent a malicious user from using mmap()
to load and execute code in the top page of user memory that was made
available when the shared page was moved down.
Make the same changes to the 64-bit Linux emulator.
PR: 219399
Reported by: nbe@renzel.net
Reviewed by: kib
Reviewed by: dchagin (previous version)
Tested by: nbe@renzel.net (earlier version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11780
cd155b5603