arm64: fpsimd: Preserve/restore kernel mode NEON at context switch

Currently, the FPSIMD register file is not preserved and restored along
with the general registers on exception entry/exit or context switch.
For this reason, we disable preemption when enabling FPSIMD for kernel
mode use in task context, and suspend the processing of softirqs so that
there are no concurrent uses in the kernel. (Kernel mode FPSIMD may not
be used at all in other contexts).

Disabling preemption while doing CPU intensive work on inputs of
potentially unbounded size is bad for real-time performance, which is
why we try and ensure that SIMD crypto code does not operate on more
than ~4k at a time, which is an arbitrary limit and requires assembler
code to implement efficiently.

We can avoid the need for disabling preemption if we can ensure that any
in-kernel users of the NEON will not lose the FPSIMD register state
across a context switch. And given that disabling softirqs implicitly
disables preemption as well, we will also have to ensure that a softirq
that runs code using FPSIMD can safely interrupt an in-kernel user.

So introduce a thread_info flag TIF_KERNEL_FPSTATE, and modify the
context switch hook for FPSIMD to preserve and restore the kernel mode
FPSIMD to/from struct thread_struct when it is set. This avoids any
scheduling blackouts due to prolonged use of FPSIMD in kernel mode,
without the need for manual yielding.

In order to support softirq processing while FPSIMD is being used in
kernel task context, use the same flag to decide whether the kernel mode
FPSIMD state needs to be preserved and restored before allowing FPSIMD
to be used in softirq context.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208113218.3001940-8-ardb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
index e5bc54522e71..ce6eebd6c08b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ struct thread_struct {
 	unsigned long		fault_address;	/* fault info */
 	unsigned long		fault_code;	/* ESR_EL1 value */
 	struct debug_info	debug;		/* debugging */
+
+	struct user_fpsimd_state	kernel_fpsimd_state;
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH
 	struct ptrauth_keys_user	keys_user;
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH_KERNEL