time, especially for SMP. If configured, it turns itself on at boot
time for calibration, so is fragile even if never otherwise used.
Both types of kernel profiling were supposed to use a global spinlock
in the SMP case. If hi-res profiling is configured (but not necessarily
used), this was supposed to be optimized by only using it when
necessary, and slightly more efficiently, in asm. But it was not done
at all for mcount entry where it is necessary. This caused crashes
in the SMP case when either type of profiling was enabled. For mcount
exit, it only caused wrong times. The times were wrongest with an
i8254 timer since using that requires exclusive access to the hardware.
The i8254 timer was too slow to use here 20 years ago and is much less
usable now, but it is the default for the SMP case since TSCs weren't
invariant when SMP was new. Do the locking in all hi-res SMP cases for
simplicity.
Calibration uses special asms, and the clobber lists in these were sort
of inverted. They contained the arg and return registers which are not
clobbered, but on amd64 they didn't contain the residue of the call-used
registers which may be clobbered (%r10 and %r11). This usually caused
hangs at boot time. This usually affected even the UP case.
kernel profiling remains broken).
memmove() was broken using ALTENTRY(). ALTENTRY() is only different from
ENTRY() in the profiling case, and its use in that case was sort of
backwards. The backwardness magically turned memmove() into memcpy()
instead of completely breaking it. Only the high resolution parts of
profiling itself were broken. Use ordinary ENTRY() for memmove().
Turn bcopy() into a tail call to memmove() to reduce complications.
This gives slightly different pessimizations and profiling lossage.
The pessimizations are minimized by not using a frame pointer() for
bcopy().
Calls to profiling functions from exception trampolines were not
relocated. This caused crashes on the first exception. Fix this using
function pointers.
Addresses of exception handlers in trampolines were not relocated. This
caused unknown offsets in the profiling data. Relocate by abusing
setidt_disp as for pmc although this is slower than necessary and
requires namespace pollution. pmc seems to be missing some relocations.
Stack traces and lots of other things in debuggers need similar relocations.
Most user addresses were misclassified as unknown kernel addresses and
then ignored. Treat all unknown addresses as user. Now only user
addresses in the kernel text range are significantly misclassified (as
known kernel addresses).
The ibrs functions didn't preserve enough registers. This is the only
recent breakage on amd64. Although these functions are written in
asm, in the profiling case they call profiling functions which are
mostly for the C ABI, so they only have to save call-used registers.
They also have to save arg and return registers in some cases and
actually save them in all cases to reduce complications. They end up
saving all registers except %ecx on i386 and %r10 and %r11 on amd64.
Saving these is only needed for 1 caller on each of amd64 and i386.
Save them there. This is slightly simpler.
Remove saving %ecx in handle_ibrs_exit on i386. Both handle_ibrs_entry
and handle_ibrs_exit use %ecx, but only the latter needed to or did
save it. But saving it there doesn't work for the profiling case.
amd64 has more automatic saving of the most common scratch registers
%rax, %rcx and %rdx (its complications for %r10 are from unusual use
of %r10 by SYSCALL). Thus profiling of handle_ibrs_exit_rs() was not
broken, and I didn't simplify the saving by moving the saving of these
registers from it to the caller.
Intel now provides comprehensive tables for all performance counters
and the various valid configuration permutations as text .json files.
Libpmc has been converted to use these and hwpmc_core has been greatly
simplified by moving to passthrough of the table values.
The one gotcha is that said tables don't support pentium pro and and pentium
IV. There's very few users of hwpmc on _amd64_ kernels on new hardware. It is
unlikely that anyone is doing low level optimization on 15 year old Intel
hardware. Nonetheless, if someone feels strongly enough to populate the
corresponding tables for p4 and ppro I will reinstate the files in to the
build.
Code for the K8 counters and !x86 architectures remains unchanged.
This is a follow-up to r321483, which disabled -Wmacro-redefined for
some lib/msun tests.
If an application included both fenv.h and ieeefp.h, several macros such
as __fldcw(), __fldenv() were defined in both headers, with slightly
different arguments, leading to conflicts.
Fix this by putting all the common macros in the machine-specific
versions of ieeefp.h. Where needed, update the arguments in places
where the macros are invoked.
This also slightly reduces the differences between the amd64 and i386
versions of ieeefp.h.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15633
While at it add missing _acq_ and _rel_ variants for 64-bit atomic
operations under i386.
Reviewed by: kib @
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
In particular, stop using pmap_pte() to read non-promoted pte while
walking the page table. pmap_pte() needs to shoot down the kernel
mapping globally which causes IPI broadcast. Since
pmap_extract_and_hold() is used for slow copyin(9), it is very
significant hit for the 4/4 kernels.
Instead, create single purpose per-processor page frame and use it to
locally map page table page inside the critical section, to avoid
reuse of the frame by other thread if context switched.
Measurement demostrated very significant improvements in any load that
utilizes copyin/copyout.
Found and benchmarked by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The TSC-s are checked and synchronized only if they were good
originally. That is, invariant, synchronized, etc.
This is necessary on an AMD-based system where after a wakeup from STR I
see that BSP clock differs from AP clocks by a count that roughly
corresponds to one second. The APs are in sync with each other. Not
sure if this is a hardware quirk or a firmware bug.
This is what I see after a resume with this change:
SMP: passed TSC synchronization test after adjustment
acpi_timer0: restoring timecounter, ACPI-fast -> TSC-low
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15551
r334005: add pc_ibpb_set as it is now referenced by common code
(although presumably not needed on i386 since it has been there
since the first spectre mitigation work on amd64)
r334009: there is no amd64 rflags -> i386 eflags
- Add constants for fields in DR6 and the reserved fields in DR7. Use
these constants instead of magic numbers in most places that use DR6
and DR7.
- Refer to T_TRCTRAP as "debug exception" rather than a "trace trap"
as it is not just for trace exceptions.
- Always read DR6 for debug exceptions and only clear TF in the flags
register for user exceptions where DR6.BS is set.
- Clear DR6 before returning from a debug exception handler as
recommended by the SDM dating all the way back to the 386. This
allows debuggers to determine the cause of each exception. For
kernel traps, clear DR6 in the T_TRCTRAP case and pass DR6 by value
to other parts of the handler (namely, user_dbreg_trap()). For user
traps, wait until after trapsignal to clear DR6 so that userland
debuggers can read DR6 via PT_GETDBREGS while the thread is stopped
in trapsignal().
Reviewed by: kib, rgrimes
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15189
is executed on the right stack already. No copy from the entry stack
to the kstack must be performed for vm86 bios call code to function.
To access the pcb flags on kernel entry, unconditionally switch to
kernel address space if vm86 mode is detected.
This fixes very early vm86 bios calls, typically done when boot is
performed by boot2 without loader, and kernel falls back to BIOS calls
to get SMAP.
Reported by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Use proper method to access userspace. For now, only the slow copyout
path is implemented.
Reported and tested by: tijl (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The change makes the user and kernel address spaces on i386
independent, giving each almost the full 4G of usable virtual addresses
except for one PDE at top used for trampoline and per-CPU trampoline
stacks, and system structures that must be always mapped, namely IDT,
GDT, common TSS and LDT, and process-private TSS and LDT if allocated.
By using 1:1 mapping for the kernel text and data, it appeared
possible to eliminate assembler part of the locore.S which bootstraps
initial page table and KPTmap. The code is rewritten in C and moved
into the pmap_cold(). The comment in vmparam.h explains the KVA
layout.
There is no PCID mechanism available in protected mode, so each
kernel/user switch forth and back completely flushes the TLB, except
for the trampoline PTD region. The TLB invalidations for userspace
becomes trivial, because IPI handlers switch page tables. On the other
hand, context switches no longer need to reload %cr3.
copyout(9) was rewritten to use vm_fault_quick_hold(). An issue for
new copyout(9) is compatibility with wiring user buffers around sysctl
handlers. This explains two kind of locks for copyout ptes and
accounting of the vslock() calls. The vm_fault_quick_hold() AKA slow
path, is only tried after the 'fast path' failed, which temporary
changes mapping to the userspace and copies the data to/from small
per-cpu buffer in the trampoline. If a page fault occurs during the
copy, it is short-circuit by exception.s to not even reach C code.
The change was motivated by the need to implement the Meltdown
mitigation, but instead of KPTI the full split is done. The i386
architecture already shows the sizing problems, in particular, it is
impossible to link clang and lld with debugging. I expect that the
issues due to the virtual address space limits would only exaggerate
and the split gives more liveness to the platform.
Tested by: pho
Discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14633
So that it doesn't rely on physmap[1] containing an address below
1MiB. Instead scan the full physmap and search for a suitable address
to place the trampoline code (below 1MiB) and the initial memory pages
(below 4GiB).
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14878
platforms. Original commit message as follows:
Only use CPUs in the domain the device is attached to for default
assignment. Device drivers are able to override the default assignment
if they bind directly. There are severe performance penalties for
handling interrupts on remote CPUs and this should only be done in
very controlled circumstances.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14838
assignment. Device drivers are able to override the default assignment
if they bind directly. There are severe performance penalties for
handling interrupts on remote CPUs and this should only be done in
very controlled circumstances.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14838
Nothing uses the #define's values or the types. (Some NTP code does use
an audio_info_t, but it is in #ifdef'd support for Solaris and is not
this audio_info_t).
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
correctly for the data contained on each memory page.
There are several components to this change:
* Add a variable to indicate the start of the R/W portion of the
initial memory.
* Stop detecting NX bit support for each AP. Instead, use the value
from the BSP and, if supported, activate the feature on the other
APs just before loading the correct page table. (Functionally, we
already assume that the BSP and all APs had the same support or
lack of support for the NX bit.)
* Set the RW and NX bits correctly for the kernel text, data, and
BSS (subject to some caveats below).
* Ensure DDB can write to memory when necessary (such as to set a
breakpoint).
* Ensure GDB can write to memory when necessary (such as to set a
breakpoint). For this purpose, add new MD functions gdb_begin_write()
and gdb_end_write() which the GDB support code can call before and
after writing to memory.
This change is not comprehensive:
* It doesn't do anything to protect modules.
* It doesn't do anything for kernel memory allocated after the kernel
starts running.
* In order to avoid excessive memory inefficiency, it may let multiple
types of data share a 2M page, and assigns the most permissions
needed for data on that page.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Discussed with: emaste
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14282
No implementation of fpu_kern_enter() can fail, and it was causing needless
error checking boilerplate and confusion. Change the return code to void to
match reality.
(This trivial change took nine days to land because of the commit hook on
sys/dev/random. Please consider removing the hook or otherwise lowering the
bar -- secteam never seems to have free time to review patches.)
Reported by: Lachlan McIlroy <Lachlan.McIlroy AT isilon.com>
Reviewed by: delphij
Approved by: secteam (delphij)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14380
(i386 and arm) that never implement them. This allows the removal of
#ifdef PHYS_TO_DMAP on code otherwise protected by a runtime check on
PMAP_HAS_DMAP. It also fixes the build on ARM and i386 after I forgot an
#ifdef in r328168.
Reported by: Milan Obuch
Pointy hat to: me
kernel by PHYS_TO_DMAP() as previously present on amd64, arm64, riscv, and
powerpc64. This introduces a new MI macro (PMAP_HAS_DMAP) that can be
evaluated at runtime to determine if the architecture has a direct map;
if it does not (or does) unconditionally and PMAP_HAS_DMAP is either 0 or
1, the compiler can remove the conditional logic.
As part of this, implement PHYS_TO_DMAP() on sparc64 and mips64, which had
similar things but spelled differently. 32-bit MIPS has a partial direct-map
that maps poorly to this concept and is unchanged.
Reviewed by: kib
Suggestions from: marius, alc, kib
Runtime tested on: amd64, powerpc64, powerpc, mips64
They provide relaxed-ordered atomic access semantic. Due to the
FreeBSD memory model, the operations are syntaxical wrappers around
the volatile accesses. The volatile qualifier is used to ensure that
the access not optimized out and in turn depends on the volatile
semantic as implemented by supported compilers.
The motivation for adding the operation is to help people coming from
other systems or knowing the C11/C++ standards where atomics have
special type and require use of the special access operations. It is
still the case that FreeBSD requires plain load and stores of aligned
integer types to be atomic.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: alc, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13534
Logically, extend r286288 to cover all threads, by default.
The world has largely moved on from i386. Most FreeBSD users and developers
test on amd64 hardware. For better or worse, we have written a non-trivial
amount of kernel code that relies on stacks larger than 8 kB, and it "just
works" on amd64, so there has been little incentive to shrink it.
amd64 had its KSTACK_PAGES bumped to 4 back in Peter's initial AMD64 commit,
r114349, in 2003. Since that time, i386 has limped along on a stack half
the size. We've even observed the stack overflows years ago, but neglected
to fix the issue; see the 20121223 and 20150728 entries in UPDATING.
If anyone is concerned with this change, I suggest they configure their
AMD64 kernels with KSTACK_PAGES 2 and fix the fallout there first. Eugene
has identified a list of high stack usage functions in the first PR below.
PR: 219476, 224218
Reported by: eugen@, Shreesh Holla <hshreesh AT yahoo.com>
Relnotes: maybe
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
--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
