[tip: x86/cpu] x86/tsx: Clear CPUID bits when TSX always force aborts

From: tip-bot2 for Pawan Gupta
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 13:14:44 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/cpu branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 293649307ef9abcd4f83f6dac4d4400dfd97c936
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/293649307ef9abcd4f83f6dac4d4400dfd97c936
Author: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:14:25 -07:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:46:48 +02:00

x86/tsx: Clear CPUID bits when TSX always force aborts

As a result of TSX deprecation, some processors always abort TSX
transactions by default after a microcode update.

When TSX feature cannot be used it is better to hide it. Clear CPUID.RTM
and CPUID.HLE bits when TSX transactions always abort.

[ bp: Massage commit message and comments. ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5209b3d72ffe5bd3cafdcc803f5b883f785329c3.1623704845.git-series.pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h | 2 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 4 +++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
index 6794412..9552130 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ extern const struct cpu_dev *const __x86_cpu_dev_start[],
enum tsx_ctrl_states {
TSX_CTRL_ENABLE,
TSX_CTRL_DISABLE,
+ TSX_CTRL_RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT,
TSX_CTRL_NOT_SUPPORTED,
};

@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ extern __ro_after_init enum tsx_ctrl_states tsx_ctrl_state;
extern void __init tsx_init(void);
extern void tsx_enable(void);
extern void tsx_disable(void);
+extern void tsx_clear_cpuid(void);
#else
static inline void tsx_init(void) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 8adffc1..861e919 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -717,8 +717,10 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

if (tsx_ctrl_state == TSX_CTRL_ENABLE)
tsx_enable();
- if (tsx_ctrl_state == TSX_CTRL_DISABLE)
+ else if (tsx_ctrl_state == TSX_CTRL_DISABLE)
tsx_disable();
+ else if (tsx_ctrl_state == TSX_CTRL_RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT)
+ tsx_clear_cpuid();

split_lock_init();
bus_lock_init();
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c
index e2ad30e..9c7a5f0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
/*
* Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) control.
*
- * Copyright (C) 2019 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (C) 2019-2021 Intel Corporation
*
* Author:
* Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
@@ -84,13 +84,46 @@ static enum tsx_ctrl_states x86_get_tsx_auto_mode(void)
return TSX_CTRL_ENABLE;
}

+void tsx_clear_cpuid(void)
+{
+ u64 msr;
+
+ /*
+ * MSR_TFA_TSX_CPUID_CLEAR bit is only present when both CPUID
+ * bits RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT and TSX_FORCE_ABORT are present.
+ */
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT) &&
+ boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSX_FORCE_ABORT)) {
+ rdmsrl(MSR_TSX_FORCE_ABORT, msr);
+ msr |= MSR_TFA_TSX_CPUID_CLEAR;
+ wrmsrl(MSR_TSX_FORCE_ABORT, msr);
+ }
+}
+
void __init tsx_init(void)
{
char arg[5] = {};
int ret;

- if (!tsx_ctrl_is_supported())
+ /*
+ * Hardware will always abort a TSX transaction if both CPUID bits
+ * RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT and TSX_FORCE_ABORT are set. In this case, it is
+ * better not to enumerate CPUID.RTM and CPUID.HLE bits. Clear them
+ * here.
+ */
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT) &&
+ boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSX_FORCE_ABORT)) {
+ tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT;
+ tsx_clear_cpuid();
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RTM);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_HLE);
return;
+ }
+
+ if (!tsx_ctrl_is_supported()) {
+ tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_NOT_SUPPORTED;
+ return;
+ }

ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "tsx", arg, sizeof(arg));
if (ret >= 0) {