Upon successful completion, the execve() system call invokes
exec_setregs() to initialize the registers of the initial thread of the
newly executed process. What is weird is that when execve() returns, it
still goes through the normal system call return path, clobbering the
registers with the system call's return value (td->td_retval).
Though this doesn't seem to be problematic for x86 most of the times (as
the value of eax/rax doesn't matter upon startup), this can be pretty
frustrating for architectures where function argument and return
registers overlap (e.g., ARM). On these systems, exec_setregs() also
needs to initialize td_retval.
Even worse are architectures where cpu_set_syscall_retval() sets
registers to values not derived from td_retval. On these architectures,
there is no way cpu_set_syscall_retval() can set registers to the way it
wants them to be upon the start of execution.
To get rid of this madness, let sys_execve() return EJUSTRETURN. This
will cause cpu_set_syscall_retval() to leave registers intact. This
makes process execution easier to understand. It also eliminates the
difference between execution of the initial process and successive ones.
The initial call to sys_execve() is not performed through a system call
context.
Reviewed by: kib, jhibbits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13180
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Initially, only tag files that use BSD 4-Clause "Original" license.
RelNotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13133
It is for console presented at 2001 and featuring Pentium III
processor. Even if any of them are still alive and run FreeBSD, we do
not have any sign of life from their users. While removing another
dozens of #ifdefs from the i386 sources reduces the aversion from
looking at the code and improves the platform vitality.
Reviewed by: cem, pfg, rink (XBOX support author)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13016
Some callers of fpusetregs()/npxsetregs(), most importantly
set_fpcontext(), clear reserved bits. But some did not. Do the
clearing in fpusetregs() and remove now redundand operation from
set_fpcontext().
Reported by: Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
HEAD. Enable VIMAGE in GENERIC kernels and some others (where GENERIC does
not exist) on HEAD.
Disable building LINT-VIMAGE with VIMAGE being default.
This should give it a lot more exposure in the run-up to 12 to help
us evaluate whether to keep it on by default or not.
We are also hoping to get better performance testing.
The feature can be disabled using nooptions.
Requested by: many
Reviewed by: kristof, emaste, hiren
X-MFC after: never
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12639
All of the kernel dump implementations keep track of the current offset
("dumplo") within the dump device. However, except for textdumps, they
all write the dump sequentially, so we can reduce code duplication by
having the MI code keep track of the current offset. The new
dump_append() API can be used to write at the current offset.
This is needed to implement support for kernel dump compression in the
MI kernel dump code.
Also simplify dump_encrypted_write() somewhat: use dump_write() instead
of duplicating its bounds checks, and get rid of the redundant offset
tracking.
Reviewed by: cem
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11722
descriptors does not fit into currently allocated LDT, or trim the
return if the range fits partially. Before, the function returned
EINVAL.
Fix two bugs in r324366: use capped num counter for malloc size, and
do not leak allocated buffer on EINVAL (by handling EINVAL case as
normal, see above).
Reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Remove mtx_owned() checks from set_user_ldt(). Split the function
into _locked() version which requires the dt_lock spinlock owned, and
make set_user_ldt() a wrapper. Add a comment in swtch.s noting that
the call to the new set_user_ldt() cannot recurse on dt_lock.
Remove #ifdef SMP block, the addend is always zero on UP.
Fix type of set_user_ldt_rv(), making it match the type used for
smb_rendezvous() callback, and remove the cast. Use curproc.
Reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The values from the old address space do not make sense for the new
program. In particular, gsbase might be the TLS base for the old
program but the new program has no TLS now.
amd64 already handles this correctly.
Reported and reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Provide consistent snapshot of the requested descriptors by preventing
other threads from modifying LDT while we fetch the data, lock dt_lock
around the read. Copy the data into intermediate buffer, which is
copied out after the lock is dropped.
Comparing with the amd64 version, the read is done byte by byte, since
there is no atomic 64bit read (cmpxchg8b method is too heavy comparing
with the avoided issues).
Improve overflow checking for the descriptors range calculations and
remove unneeded casts. Use unsigned types for sizes.
Allow zero num argument to i386_get_ldt() and i386_set_ldt(). This
case is handled naturally by the code flow.
Reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Split the handlers for pop of invalid selectors from the trap frame
into usermode and kernel variants. Usermode handler is kept as is, it
restores the already loaded parts of the trap frame and jumps to set
up a signal delivery to the user process.
New kernel part of the handler emulates IRET treatment of the segments
which would violate access right. It loads NUL selector in the
segment register which load causes the fault, and then continues the
return to interrupted kernel code. Since invalid selectors in the
segment registers in the kernel mode can only exist while kernel still
enters or exits from userspace, we only zero invalid userspace
selectors. If userspace tries to use the segment register, it gets a
signal, as if the processor segment descriptor cache was reloaded.
Reported by: Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
Suggested and reviewed by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Do not return from interrupt using the POP_FRAME;iret instruction
sequence, always jump to doreti.
The user segments selectors saved on the stack might become invalid
because userspace manipulated LDT in a parallel thread. trap() is
aware of such issue, but it is only prepared to handle it at iret and
segment registers load operations in doreti path.
Also remove POP_FRAME macro because it is no longer used.
Reviewed by: bde, jhb (as part of r323722)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
some still useful bits of the reverted revision.
The problem with the committed fix is that there are still issues with
returning from NMI, when NMI interrupted kernel in a moment where the
kernel segments selectors were still not loaded into registers. If
this happens, the NMI return would loose the userspace selectors
because r323722 does not reload segment registers on return to kernel
mode.
Fixing the problem is complicated. Since an alternative approach to
handle the original bug exists, it makes sence to stop adding more
complexity.
Discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
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
