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Commit 753b3236 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: extable: add load_unaligned_zeropad() handler



For inline assembly, we place exception fixups out-of-line in the
`.fixup` section such that these are out of the way of the fast path.
This has a few drawbacks:

* Since the fixup code is anonymous, backtraces will symbolize fixups as
  offsets from the nearest prior symbol, currently
  `__entry_tramp_text_end`. This is confusing, and painful to debug
  without access to the relevant vmlinux.

* Since the exception handler adjusts the PC to execute the fixup, and
  the fixup uses a direct branch back into the function it fixes,
  backtraces of fixups miss the original function. This is confusing,
  and violates requirements for RELIABLE_STACKTRACE (and therefore
  LIVEPATCH).

* Inline assembly and associated fixups are generated from templates,
  and we have many copies of logically identical fixups which only
  differ in which specific registers are written to and which address is
  branched to at the end of the fixup. This is potentially wasteful of
  I-cache resources, and makes it hard to add additional logic to fixups
  without significant bloat.

* In the case of load_unaligned_zeropad(), the logic in the fixup
  requires a temporary register that we must allocate even in the
  fast-path where it will not be used.

This patch address all four concerns for load_unaligned_zeropad() fixups
by adding a dedicated exception handler which performs the fixup logic
in exception context and subsequent returns back after the faulting
instruction. For the moment, the fixup logic is identical to the old
assembly fixup logic, but in future we could enhance this by taking the
ESR and FAR into account to constrain the faults we try to fix up, or to
specialize fixups for MTE tag check faults.

Other than backtracing, there should be no functional change as a result
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019160219.5202-13-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent 2e77a62c
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