Care must be taken when updating the active LDT, since parallel
threads might try to load a segment descriptor which is currently
updated. Since the results are undefined, this cannot be ignored by
claiming to be an application race.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12413
Suppose that userspace is executing with the non-standard segment
descriptors. Then, until exception or interrupt handler executed
SET_KERNEL_SEGS, kernel is still executing with user %ds, %es and %fs.
If an interrupt occurs in this window, the interrupt handler is
executed unsafely, relying on usability of the usermode registers. If
the interrupt results in the context switch on return, the
contamination of the kernel state spreads to the thread we switched
to. As result, kernel data accesses might fault or, if only the base
is changed, completely messed up.
More, if the user segment was allocated in LDT, another thread might
mark the descriptor as invalid before doreti code tried to reload
them. In this case kernel panics.
The issue exists for all exception entry points which use trap gate,
and thus do not automatically disable interrupts on entry, and for
lcall_handler.
Fix is two-fold: first, we need to disable interrupts for all kernel
entries, changing the IDT descriptor types from trap gate to interrupt
gate. Interrupts are re-enabled not earlier than the kernel segments
are loaded into the segment registers. Second, we only load the
segment registers from the trap frame when returning to usermode. For
the later, all interrupt return paths must happen through the doreti
common code.
There is no way to disable interrupts on call gate, which is the
supposed mode of servicing for lcall $7,$0 syscalls. Change the LDT
descriptor 0 into a code segment type and point it to the userspace
trampoline which redirects the syscall to int $0x80.
All the measures make the segment register handling similar to that of
amd64. We do not apply amd64 optimizations of not reloading segment
registers on return from the syscall.
Reported by: Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
Tested by: pho (the non-lcall part)
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12402
This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though
the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events).
I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work
with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges
per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows,
6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines
in those chips, but they are not yet supported.
While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific
ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and
alike to Linux naming.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
The actual cache line size has always been 64 bytes.
The 128 number arose as an optimization for Core 2 era Intel processors. By
default (configurable in BIOS), these CPUs would prefetch adjacent cache
lines unintelligently. Newer CPUs prefetch more intelligently.
The latest Core 2 era CPU was introduced in September 2008 (Xeon 7400
series, "Dunnington"). If you are still using one of these CPUs, especially
in a multi-socket configuration, consider locating the "adjacent cache line
prefetch" option in BIOS and disabling it.
Reported by: mjg
Reviewed by: np
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Simplify i386 trap().
- Use more relevant name 'signo' instead of 'i' for the local variable
which contains a signal number to send for the current exception.
- Eliminate two labels 'userout' and 'out' which point to the very end
of the trap() function. Instead use return directly.
- Re-indent the prot_fault_translation block by reducing if() nesting.
- Some more monor style changes.
Reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The machdep.uprintf_signal sysctl replaced it in more convenient way,
not requiring recompilation to use and providing more information on
fault.
Reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Make sure that %eflags.D flag is cleared for hook.
Improve comments.
When #UD dtrace code checks for a registered hook before checking that
the exception was raised from kernel mode, we might run with the user
%ds, trapping on access. Exception entry from userspace automatically
load valid %ss, which we can use there instead.
Noted and reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
exception did not happen in vm86 mode. A vm86 userland process could
have a %cs that matches GSEL_KPL, while dtrace cannot hook it.
Submitted by: Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
MFC after: 3 days
This helps simplify the code in kern_shutdown.c and reduces the number
of globally visible functions.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: cem, def
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11603
dump_start() and dump_finish() are responsible for writing kernel dump
headers, optionally writing the key when encryption is enabled, and
initializing the initial offset into the dump device.
Also remove the unused dump_pad(), and make some functions static now that
they're only called from kern_shutdown.c.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: cem, def
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11584
Add an option to dynamically rebalance interrupts across cores
(hw.intrbalance); off by default.
The goal is to minimize preemption. By placing interrupt sources on distinct
CPUs, ithreads get preferentially scheduled on distinct CPUs. Overall
preemption is reduced and latency is reduced. In our workflow it reduced
"fighting" between two high-frequency interrupt sources. Reduced latency
was proven by, e.g., SPEC2008.
Submitted by: jeff@ (earlier version)
Reviewed by: kib@
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10435
reduces diff between amd64 and i386. Also, it fixes a regression introduced
in r322076, i.e., identify_hypervisor() failed to identify some hypervisors.
This function assumes cpu_feature2 is already initialized.
Reported by: dexuan
Tested by: dexuan
but it was broken since r273800 (and r278522, its MFC to stable/10) because
identify_cpu() is called too late, i.e., after init_param1().
MFC after: 3 days
Some C wrappers for x86 instructions do not touch global memory and only act
on their arguments; they can be marked __pure2, aka __const__. Without this
annotation, Clang 3.9.1 is not intelligent enough on its own to grok that
these functions are __const__.
Submitted by: Anton Rang <anton.rang AT isilon.com>
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
when a signal is not intended to be sent.
The variable holding the signal number to send is left uninitialized,
which sometimes triggers invalid signal checks.
For NMI, a return to usermode without ast processing is done. On the
other hand, for spurious dtrace probe interrupt it is usermode which
triggered the interrupt, so handle it through userret() as any other
fault.
Reported by: Nils Beyer <nbe@renzel.net>
PR: 221151
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The removed release stores are not needed since stores are totally
ordered on i386 and amd64.
Reviewed by: alc, kib (previous revision)
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11790
If %ss is loaded with a segment pointing to a non-present descriptor
by the IRETD instruction, a kernel-mode #SS exception is generated.
Resulting T_STKFLT trap must be checked against doreti_iret_fault
location and handled, otherwise userspace may panic the kernel.
Note that this is i386 variant of FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64, but unlike
amd64, there is no swapgs on i386 and the issue is arguably not
exploitable.
Reported by: Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
start address is not required to be page aligned. However, the loop
within pmap_invalidate_cache_range() that performs the actual cache
line invalidations requires that the starting address be truncated to
a multiple of the cache line size. This change corrects an error in
that truncation.
Submitted by: Brett Gutstein <bgutstein@rice.edu>
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
--Remove special-case handling of sparc64 bus_dmamap* functions.
Replace with a more generic mechanism that allows MD busdma
implementations to generate inline mapping functions by
defining WANT_INLINE_DMAMAP in <machine/bus_dma.h>. This
is currently useful for sparc64, x86, and arm64, which all
implement non-load dmamap operations as simple wrappers
around map objects which may be bus- or device-specific.
--Remove NULL-checked bus_dmamap macros. Implement the
equivalent NULL checks in the inlined x86 implementation.
For non-x86 platforms, these checks are a minor pessimization
as those platforms do not currently allow NULL maps. NULL
maps were originally allowed on arm64, which appears to have
been the motivation behind adding arm[64]-specific barriers
to bus_dma.h, but that support was removed in r299463.
--Simplify the internal interface used by the bus_dmamap_load*
variants and move it to bus_dma_internal.h
--Fix some drivers that directly include sys/bus_dma.h
despite the recommendations of bus_dma(9)
Reviewed by: kib (previous revision), marius
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10729
struct thread.
For all architectures, the syscall trap handlers have to allocate the
structure on the stack. The structure takes 88 bytes on 64bit arches
which is not negligible. Also, it cannot be easily found by other
code, which e.g. caused duplication of some members of the structure
to struct thread already. The change removes td_dbg_sc_code and
td_dbg_sc_nargs which were directly copied from syscall_args.
The structure is put into the copied on fork part of the struct thread
to make the syscall arguments information correct in the child after
fork.
This move will also allow several more uses shortly.
Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
X-Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11080
from machine/proc.h, consistently on all architectures.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
X-Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11080
An extra copy of the system call gate was added to the default LDT back
in 1996 (r18513 / r18514). However, the ability to run BSD/OS 2.1
i386 binaries under FreeBSD's native ABI is most likely no longer
needed.
Discussed with: kib
A long long time ago the register keyword told the compiler to store
the corresponding variable in a CPU register, but it is not relevant
for any compiler used in the FreeBSD world today.
ANSIfy related prototypes while here.
Reviewed by: cem, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10193
in place. To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
early counter mechanism:
o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
point to a counter that can be safely written to.
o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.
Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.
This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html
Reviewed by: kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
The MFC will include a compat definition of smp_no_rendevous_barrier()
that calls smp_no_rendezvous_barrier().
Reviewed by: gnn, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10313
- renaming l_ifreq::ifru_metric to l_ifreq::ifru_ivalue;
- adding a definition for ifr_ifindex which points to l_ifreq::ifru_ivalue.
A quick search indicates that Linux already got the above changes since 2.1.14.
Reviewed by: kib, marcel, dchagin
MFC after: 1 week
The change introduced a dependency between genassym.c and header files
generated from .m files, but that dependency is not specified in the
make files.
Also, the change could be not as useful as I thought it was.
Reported by: dchagin, Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>, and many others
I fixed this in 1997, but the fix was over-engineered and fragile and
was broken in 2003 if not before. i386 parameters were copied to 8
other arches verbatim, mostly after they stopped working on i386, and
mostly without the large comment saying how the values were chosen on
i386. powerpc has a non-verbatim copy which just changes the uncritical
parameter and seems to add a sign extension bug to it.
Just treat negative offsets as offsets if they are no more negative than
-db_offset_max (default -64K), and remove all the broken parameters.
-64K is not very negative, but it is enough for frame and stack pointer
offsets since kernel stacks are small.
The over-engineering was mainly to go more negative than -64K for the
negative offset format, without affecting printing for more than a
single address.
Addresses in the top 64K of a (full 32-bit or 64-bit) address space
are now printed less well, but there aren't many interesting ones.
For arches that have many interesting ones very near the top (e.g.,
68k has interrupt vectors there), there would be no good limit for
the negative offset format and -64K is a good as anything.
The change is more intrusive than I would like because the feature
requires that a vector number is written to a special register.
Thus, now the vector number has to be provided to lapic_eoi().
It was readily available in the IO-APIC and MSI cases, but the IPI
handlers required more work.
Also, we now store the VMM IPI number in a global variable, so that it
is available to the justreturn handler for the same reason.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9880
Long ago, perhaps only on i386, kernel text was mapped read-only and
it was necessary to change the mapping to read-write to set breakpoints
in kernel text. Other writes by ddb to kernel text were also allowed.
This write protection is harder to implement with 4MB pages, and was
lost even for 4K pages when 4MB pages were implemented. So changing
the mapping became useless. It was actually worse than useless since
it followed followed various null and otherwise garbage pointers to
not change random memory instead of the mapping. (On i386s, the
pointers became good in pmap_bootstrap(), and on amd64 the pointers
became bad in pmap_bootstrap() if not before.)
Another bug broke detection of following of null pointers on i386,
except early in boot where not detecting this was a feature. When
I fixed the bug, I accidentally broke the feature and soon got traps
in db_write_bytes(). Setting breakpoints early in ddb was broken.
kib pointed out that a clean way to do the adjustment would be to use
a special [sub]map giving a small window on the bytes to be written.
The trap handler didn't know how to fix up errors for pagefaults
accessing the map itself. Such errors rarely need fixups, since most
traps for the map are for the first access which is a read.
Reviewed by: kib
