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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/5] x86: jump_label: switch to jump_entry accessors
On 28 June 2018 at 11:11, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 06:06:03PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> In preparation of switching x86 to use place-relative references for
>> the code, target and key members of struct jump_entry, replace direct
>> references to the struct members with invocations of the new accessors.
>> This will allow us to make the switch by modifying the accessors only.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>
> That just makes horrible code worse.. can't we do something like so
> instead?
>

Sure, I will incorporate that for v2.

>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -42,52 +42,37 @@ static void __jump_label_transform(struc
> void *(*poker)(void *, const void *, size_t),
> int init)
> {
> - union jump_code_union code;
> + union jump_code_union jmp = {
> + { .jump = 0xe9,
> + .offset = jump_entry_target(entry) -
> + (jump_entry_code(entry) + JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE), }
> + };
> const unsigned char default_nop[] = { STATIC_KEY_INIT_NOP };
> const unsigned char *ideal_nop = ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5];
> + const unsigned char *expect, *code;
> + int line;
>
> if (type == JUMP_LABEL_JMP) {
> if (init) {
> - /*
> - * Jump label is enabled for the first time.
> - * So we expect a default_nop...
> - */
> - if (unlikely(memcmp((void *)entry->code, default_nop, 5)
> - != 0))
> - bug_at((void *)entry->code, __LINE__);
> + expect = default_nop; line = __LINE__;
> } else {
> - /*
> - * ...otherwise expect an ideal_nop. Otherwise
> - * something went horribly wrong.
> - */
> - if (unlikely(memcmp((void *)entry->code, ideal_nop, 5)
> - != 0))
> - bug_at((void *)entry->code, __LINE__);
> + expect = ideal_nop; line = __LINE__;
> }
>
> - code.jump = 0xe9;
> - code.offset = entry->target -
> - (entry->code + JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> + code = &jmp.code;
> } else {
> - /*
> - * We are disabling this jump label. If it is not what
> - * we think it is, then something must have gone wrong.
> - * If this is the first initialization call, then we
> - * are converting the default nop to the ideal nop.
> - */
> if (init) {
> - if (unlikely(memcmp((void *)entry->code, default_nop, 5) != 0))
> - bug_at((void *)entry->code, __LINE__);
> + expect = default_nop; line = __LINE__;
> } else {
> - code.jump = 0xe9;
> - code.offset = entry->target -
> - (entry->code + JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> - if (unlikely(memcmp((void *)entry->code, &code, 5) != 0))
> - bug_at((void *)entry->code, __LINE__);
> + expect = &jmp.code; line = __LINE__;
> }
> - memcpy(&code, ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5], JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> +
> + code = ideal_nop;
> }
>
> + if (memcmp((void *)jump_entry_code(entry), expect, JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE))
> + bug_at((void *)jump_entry_code(entry), line);
> +
> /*
> * Make text_poke_bp() a default fallback poker.
> *
> @@ -96,11 +81,13 @@ static void __jump_label_transform(struc
> * always nop being the 'currently valid' instruction
> *
> */
> - if (poker)
> - (*poker)((void *)entry->code, &code, JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> - else
> - text_poke_bp((void *)entry->code, &code, JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE,
> - (void *)entry->code + JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> + if (poker) {
> + (*poker)((void *)jump_entry_code(entry), &code, JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + text_poke_bp((void *)jump_entry_code(entry), &code, JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE,
> + (void *)jump_entry_code(entry) + JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> }
>
> void arch_jump_label_transform(struct jump_entry *entry,

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