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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2021-03-12 12:32:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2021-03-15 16:24:59 +0100 |
| commit | a89dfde3dc3c2dbf56910af75e2d8b11ec5308f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f5d63a4ea45af7d513ce044362993174ad52694 /arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | |
| parent | 59eca2fa1934de42d8aa44d3bef655c92ea69703 (diff) | |
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x86: Remove dynamic NOP selection
This ensures that a NOP is a NOP and not a random other instruction that
is also a NOP. It allows simplification of dynamic code patching that
wants to verify existing code before writing new instructions (ftrace,
jump_label, static_call, etc..).
Differentiating on NOPs is not a feature.
This pessimises 32bit (DONTCARE) and 32bit on 64bit CPUs (CARELESS).
32bit is not a performance target.
Everything x86_64 since AMD K10 (2007) and Intel IvyBridge (2012) is
fine with using NOPL (as opposed to prefix NOP). And per FEATURE_NOPL
being required for x86_64, all x86_64 CPUs can use NOPL. So stop
caring about NOPs, simplify things and get on with life.
[ The problem seems to be that some uarchs can only decode NOPL on a
single front-end port while others have severe decode penalties for
excessive prefixes. All modern uarchs can handle both, except Atom,
which has prefix penalties. ]
[ Also, much doubt you can actually measure any of this on normal
workloads. ]
After this, FEATURE_NOPL is unused except for required-features for
x86_64. FEATURE_K8 is only used for PTI.
[ bp: Kernel build measurements showed ~0.3s slowdown on Sandybridge
which is hardly a slowdown. Get rid of X86_FEATURE_K7, while at it. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> # bpf
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210312115749.065275711@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index d883176ef2ce..3b4b9b281545 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -822,7 +822,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) idt_setup_early_traps(); early_cpu_init(); - arch_init_ideal_nops(); jump_label_init(); static_call_init(); early_ioremap_init(); |