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author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2020-10-05 20:40:16 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-11-04 18:09:05 +0100 |
commit | 5fec7e5a28627138223aa20f5ff484898955ff77 (patch) | |
tree | 359789d7c7575a8821ea8081e7abebea8db27276 /tools/perf | |
parent | 8b5145ba3afc24f9749e57d3c0e6bba0b129dc4d (diff) | |
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x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()
commit ec6347bb43395cb92126788a1a5b25302543f815 upstream.
In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.
Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
> > It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
> > looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
> > caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
> > for the wrong reason relative to the name.
>
> Right.
>
> And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
> generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
> for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
> artifact of the architecture oddity.
>
> In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
> but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
> having just one function.
Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().
Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.
One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.
[ bp: Massage a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/bench/Build | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-lib.c | 24 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/Build b/tools/perf/bench/Build index dd68a40a790c..878db6a59a41 100644 --- a/tools/perf/bench/Build +++ b/tools/perf/bench/Build @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ perf-y += synthesize.o perf-y += kallsyms-parse.o perf-y += find-bit-bench.o -perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memcpy-x86-64-lib.o perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-lib.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-lib.c deleted file mode 100644 index 4130734dde84..000000000000 --- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-lib.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -/* - * From code in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c, copied to keep tools/ copy - * of the kernel's arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.s used in 'perf bench mem memcpy' - * happy. - */ -#include <linux/types.h> - -unsigned long __memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt); -unsigned long mcsafe_handle_tail(char *to, char *from, unsigned len); - -unsigned long mcsafe_handle_tail(char *to, char *from, unsigned len) -{ - for (; len; --len, to++, from++) { - /* - * Call the assembly routine back directly since - * memcpy_mcsafe() may silently fallback to memcpy. - */ - unsigned long rem = __memcpy_mcsafe(to, from, 1); - - if (rem) - break; - } - return len; -} |