x86/pti: Enable global pages for shared areas

The entry/exit text and cpu_entry_area are mapped into userspace and
the kernel.  But, they are not _PAGE_GLOBAL.  This creates unnecessary
TLB misses.

Add the _PAGE_GLOBAL flag for these areas.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author: hansendc

arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c

@@ -27,8 +27,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_cpu_entry_area);
 void cea_set_pte(void *cea_vaddr, phys_addr_t pa, pgprot_t flags)
 {
 	unsigned long va = (unsigned long) cea_vaddr;
+	pte_t pte = pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags);
 
-	set_pte_vaddr(va, pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags));
+	/*
+	 * The cpu_entry_area is shared between the user and kernel
+	 * page tables.  All of its ptes can safely be global.
+	 * _PAGE_GLOBAL gets reused to help indicate PROT_NONE for
+	 * non-present PTEs, so be careful not to set it in that
+	 * case to avoid confusion.
+	 */
+	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE) &&
+	    (pgprot_val(flags) & _PAGE_PRESENT))
+		pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
+
+	set_pte_vaddr(va, pte);
 }
 
 static void __init

arch/x86/mm/pti.c

@@ -299,6 +299,27 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pmdval_t clear)
 		if (WARN_ON(!target_pmd))
 			return;
 
+		/*
+		 * Only clone present PMDs.  This ensures only setting
+		 * _PAGE_GLOBAL on present PMDs.  This should only be
+		 * called on well-known addresses anyway, so a non-
+		 * present PMD would be a surprise.
+		 */
+		if (WARN_ON(!(pmd_flags(*pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT)))
+			return;
+
+		/*
+		 * Setting 'target_pmd' below creates a mapping in both
+		 * the user and kernel page tables.  It is effectively
+		 * global, so set it as global in both copies.  Note:
+		 * the X86_FEATURE_PGE check is not _required_ because
+		 * the CPU ignores _PAGE_GLOBAL when PGE is not
+		 * supported.  The check keeps consistentency with
+		 * code that only set this bit when supported.
+		 */
+		if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
+			*pmd = pmd_set_flags(*pmd, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
+
 		/*
 		 * Copy the PMD.  That is, the kernelmode and usermode
 		 * tables will share the last-level page tables of this
@@ -348,7 +369,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_entry_text(void)
 {
 	pti_clone_pmds((unsigned long) __entry_text_start,
 			(unsigned long) __irqentry_text_end,
-		       _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_GLOBAL);
+		       _PAGE_RW);
 }
 
 /*