Commit 959cadf
x86/its: Use dynamic thunks for indirect branches
commit 872df34d7c51a79523820ea6a14860398c639b87 upstream.
ITS mitigation moves the unsafe indirect branches to a safe thunk. This
could degrade the prediction accuracy as the source address of indirect
branches becomes same for different execution paths.
To improve the predictions, and hence the performance, assign a separate
thunk for each indirect callsite. This is also a defense-in-depth measure
to avoid indirect branches aliasing with each other.
As an example, 5000 dynamic thunks would utilize around 16 bits of the
address space, thereby gaining entropy. For a BTB that uses
32 bits for indexing, dynamic thunks could provide better prediction
accuracy over fixed thunks.
Have ITS thunks be variable sized and use EXECMEM_MODULE_TEXT such that
they are both more flexible (got to extend them later) and live in 2M TLBs,
just like kernel code, avoiding undue TLB pressure.
[ pawan: CONFIG_EXECMEM and CONFIG_EXECMEM_ROX are not supported on
backport kernel, made changes to use module_alloc() and
set_memory_*() for dynamic thunks. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>1 parent 9502e83 commit 959cadf
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