x86/mm/tlb: Leave lazy TLB mode at page table free time

Andy discovered that speculative memory accesses while in lazy
TLB mode can crash a system, when a CPU tries to dereference a
speculative access using memory contents that used to be valid
page table memory, but have since been reused for something else
and point into la-la land.

The latter problem can be prevented in two ways. The first is to
always send a TLB shootdown IPI to CPUs in lazy TLB mode, while
the second one is to only send the TLB shootdown at page table
freeing time.

The second should result in fewer IPIs, since operationgs like
mprotect and madvise are very common with some workloads, but
do not involve page table freeing. Also, on munmap, batching
of page table freeing covers much larger ranges of virtual
memory than the batching of unmapped user pages.

Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716190337.26133-3-riel@surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 6eb1f34c3c85..9a893673c56b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -646,6 +646,33 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 	put_cpu();
 }
 
+void tlb_flush_remove_tables_local(void *arg)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = arg;
+
+	if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) == mm &&
+			this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy)) {
+		/*
+		 * We're in lazy mode.  We need to at least flush our
+		 * paging-structure cache to avoid speculatively reading
+		 * garbage into our TLB.  Since switching to init_mm is barely
+		 * slower than a minimal flush, just switch to init_mm.
+		 */
+		switch_mm_irqs_off(NULL, &init_mm, NULL);
+	}
+}
+
+void tlb_flush_remove_tables(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	int cpu = get_cpu();
+	/*
+	 * XXX: this really only needs to be called for CPUs in lazy TLB mode.
+	 */
+	if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), cpu) < nr_cpu_ids)
+		smp_call_function_many(mm_cpumask(mm), tlb_flush_remove_tables_local, (void *)mm, 1);
+
+	put_cpu();
+}
 
 static void do_flush_tlb_all(void *info)
 {