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Machine generations up to z9 (released in May 2006) have been officially
out of service for several years now (z9 end of service - January 31, 2019).
No distributions build kernels supporting those old machine generations
anymore, except Debian, which seems to pick the oldest supported
generation. The team supporting Debian on s390 has been notified about
the change.
Raising minimum supported machine generation to z10 helps to reduce
maintenance cost and effectively remove code, which is not getting
enough testing coverage due to lack of older hardware and distributions
support. Besides that this unblocks some optimization opportunities and
allows to use wider instruction set in asm files for future features
implementation. Due to this change spectre mitigation and usercopy
implementations could be drastically simplified and many newer instructions
could be converted from ".insn" encoding to instruction names.
Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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s390 allows hotpatching the mask of a conditional jump instruction.
Make use of this feature in order to avoid the expensive stop_machine()
call.
The new trampolines are split in 3 stages:
- A first stage is a 6-byte relative conditional long branch located at
each function's entry point. Its offset always points to the second
stage for the corresponding function, and its mask is either all 0s
(ftrace off) or all 1s (ftrace on). The code for flipping the mask is
borrowed from ftrace_{enable,disable}_ftrace_graph_caller. After
flipping, ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process() syncs with all the
other CPUs by sending SIGPs.
- Second stages for vmlinux are stored in a separate part of the .text
section reserved by the linker script, and in dynamically allocated
memory for modules. This prevents the icache pollution. The total
size of second stages is about 1.5% of that of the kernel image.
Putting second stages in the .bss section is possible and decreases
the size of the non-compressed vmlinux, but splits the kernel 1:1
mapping, which is a bad tradeoff.
Each second stage contains a call to the third stage, a pointer to
the part of the intercepted function right after the first stage, and
a pointer to an interceptor function (e.g. ftrace_caller).
Second stages are 8-byte aligned for the future direct calls
implementation.
- There are only two copies of the third stage: in the .text section
for vmlinux and in dynamically allocated memory for modules. It can be
an expoline, which is relatively large, so inlining it into each
second stage is prohibitively expensive.
As a result of this organization, phoronix-test-suite with ftrace off
does not show any performance degradation.
Suggested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210728212546.128248-3-iii@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
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