Allowing user code to map the HPET is problematic. HPET
implementations are notoriously buggy, and there are probably many
machines on which even MMIO reads from bogus HPET addresses are
problematic.
We have a report that the Dell Precision M2800 with:
ACPI: HPET 0x00000000C8FE6238 000038 (v01 DELL CBX3 01072009 AMI. 00000005)
is either so slow when accessing the HPET or actually hangs in some
regard, causing soft lockups to be reported if users do unexpected
things to the HPET.
The vclock HPET code has also always been a questionable speedup.
Accessing an HPET is exceedingly slow (on the order of several
microseconds), so the added overhead in requiring a syscall to read
the HPET is a small fraction of the total code of accessing it.
To avoid future problems, let's just delete the code entirely.
In the long run, this could actually be a speedup. Waiman Long as a
patch to optimize the case where multiple CPUs contend for the HPET,
but that won't help unless all the accesses are mediated by the
kernel.
Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2f90bba98db9905041cff294646d290d378f67a.1460074438.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It makes me uncomfortable that even modern systems grant every
process direct read access to the HPET.
While fixing this for real without regressing anything is a mess
(unmapping the HPET is tricky because we don't adequately track
all the mappings), we can do almost as well by tracking which
vclocks have ever been used and only allowing pages associated
with used vclocks to be faulted in.
This will cause rogue programs that try to peek at the HPET to
get SIGBUS instead on most systems.
We can't restrict faults to vclock pages that are associated
with the currently selected vclock due to a race: a process
could start to access the HPET for the first time and race
against a switch away from the HPET as the current clocksource.
We can't segfault the process trying to peek at the HPET in this
case, even though the process isn't going to do anything useful
with the data.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e79d06295625c02512277737ab55085a498ac5d8.1451446564.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c
into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality
available for x86 32 bit kernel.
It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page.
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
Introduce generic, non hypervisor specific, pvclock initialization
routines.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The machinery for __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA assumed a file in
asm-generic would be the default for architectures without their own
file in asm/, but that is not how it works.
Replace it with a Kconfig option instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E288AA6.7090804@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The vread field was bloating struct clocksource everywhere except
x86_64, and I want to change the way this works on x86_64, so let's
split it out into per-arch data.
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ae5ec76a168eaaae63f08a2a1060b91aa0b7759.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
