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Dave Jiang 7f5933f81b x86/asm: Add an enqcmds() wrapper for the ENQCMDS instruction Currently, the MOVDIR64B instruction is used to atomically submit 64-byte work descriptors to devices. Although it can encounter errors like device queue full, command not accepted, device not ready, etc when writing to a device MMIO, MOVDIR64B can not report back on errors from the device itself. This means that MOVDIR64B users need to separately interact with a device to see if a descriptor was successfully queued, which slows down device interactions. ENQCMD and ENQCMDS also atomically submit 64-byte work descriptors to devices. But, they can report back errors directly from the device, such as if the device was busy, or device not enabled or does not support the command. This immediate feedback from the submission instruction itself reduces the number of interactions with the device and can greatly increase efficiency. ENQCMD can be used at any privilege level, but can effectively only submit work on behalf of the current process. ENQCMDS is a ring0-only instruction and can explicitly specify a process context instead of being tied to the current process or needing to reprogram the IA32_PASID MSR. Use ENQCMDS for work submission within the kernel because a Process Address ID (PASID) is setup to translate the kernel virtual address space. This PASID is provided to ENQCMDS from the descriptor structure submitted to the device and not retrieved from IA32_PASID MSR, which is setup for the current user address space. See Intel Software Developer’s Manual for more information on the instructions. [ bp: - Make operand constraints like movdir64b() because both insns are basically doing the same thing, more or less. - Fixup comments and cleanup. ] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200924180041.34056-3-dave.jiang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005151126.657029-3-dave.jiang@intel.com	2020-10-07 17:53:08 +02:00
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asm	x86/asm: Add an enqcmds() wrapper for the ENQCMDS instruction	2020-10-07 17:53:08 +02:00
uapi/asm	Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support it,	2020-08-04 21:16:22 -07:00

Dave Jiang 7f5933f81b x86/asm: Add an enqcmds() wrapper for the ENQCMDS instruction

Currently, the MOVDIR64B instruction is used to atomically submit
64-byte work descriptors to devices. Although it can encounter errors
like device queue full, command not accepted, device not ready, etc when
writing to a device MMIO, MOVDIR64B can not report back on errors from
the device itself. This means that MOVDIR64B users need to separately
interact with a device to see if a descriptor was successfully queued,
which slows down device interactions.

ENQCMD and ENQCMDS also atomically submit 64-byte work descriptors
to devices. But, they *can* report back errors directly from the
device, such as if the device was busy, or device not enabled or does
not support the command. This immediate feedback from the submission
instruction itself reduces the number of interactions with the device
and can greatly increase efficiency.

ENQCMD can be used at any privilege level, but can effectively only
submit work on behalf of the current process. ENQCMDS is a ring0-only
instruction and can explicitly specify a process context instead of
being tied to the current process or needing to reprogram the IA32_PASID
MSR.

Use ENQCMDS for work submission within the kernel because a Process
Address ID (PASID) is setup to translate the kernel virtual address
space. This PASID is provided to ENQCMDS from the descriptor structure
submitted to the device and not retrieved from IA32_PASID MSR, which is
setup for the current user address space.

See Intel Software Developer’s Manual for more information on the
instructions.

 [ bp:
   - Make operand constraints like movdir64b() because both insns are
     basically doing the same thing, more or less.
   - Fixup comments and cleanup. ]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200924180041.34056-3-dave.jiang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005151126.657029-3-dave.jiang@intel.com

2020-10-07 17:53:08 +02:00

asm

x86/asm: Add an enqcmds() wrapper for the ENQCMDS instruction

2020-10-07 17:53:08 +02:00

uapi/asm

Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support it,

2020-08-04 21:16:22 -07:00