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Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing

From Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing
Date 2016-01-15 21:30 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 04:00:49AM -0800, tip-bot for yu-cheng yu wrote:
> Commit-ID:  4f81cbafcce2c603db7865e9d0e461f7947d77d4
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/4f81cbafcce2c603db7865e9d0e461f7947d77d4
> Author:     yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 14:24:51 -0800
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:51:20 +0100
> 
> x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing
> 
> The function fpu__init_system() is executed before
> parse_early_param(). This causes wrong FPU configuration. This
> patch fixes this issue by parsing boot_command_line in the
> beginning of fpu__init_system().
> 
> With all four patches in this series, each parameter disables
> features as the following:
> 
> eagerfpu=off: eagerfpu, avx, avx2, avx512, mpx
> no387: fpu
> nofxsr: fxsr, fxsropt, xmm
> noxsave: xsave, xsaveopt, xsaves, xsavec, avx, avx2, avx512,
> mpx, xgetbv1 noxsaveopt: xsaveopt
> noxsaves: xsaves
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
> Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452119094-7252-2-git-send-email-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c | 109 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

...

> + * We parse fpu parameters early because fpu__init_system() is executed
> + * before parse_early_param().
> + */
> +static void __init fpu__init_parse_early_param(void)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * No need to check "eagerfpu=auto" again, since it is the
> +	 * initial default.
> +	 */
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "eagerfpu=off"))
> +		eagerfpu = DISABLE;
> +	else if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "eagerfpu=on"))
> +		eagerfpu = ENABLE;
> +
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "no387"))
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_FPU);
> +
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "nofxsr")) {
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_FXSR);
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_FXSR_OPT);
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XMM);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "noxsave"))
> +		fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps();
> +
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "noxsaveopt"))
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT);
> +
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "noxsaves"))
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);

This could certainly be improved: we're iterating over the *whole*
command line each time for each option unconditionally instead of
iterating word by word and comparing it with all strings.

We'd need something like cmdline_for_each_word() or so, though...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH 0/4] x86/fpu: FPU init code bugfixes yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-06 23:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/4] x86/fpu: Disable XGETBV1 when no XSAVE yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-06 23:40 +0100
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Disable XGETBV1 when no XSAVE tip-bot for yu-cheng yu <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-01-12 13:10 +0100
  [PATCH 3/4] x86/fpu: Disable MPX when eagerfpu is off yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-06 23:40 +0100
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Disable MPX when eagerfpu is off tip-bot for yu-cheng yu <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-01-12 13:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4/4] x86/fpu: Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-06 23:40 +0100
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Disable AVX when eagerfpu is off tip-bot for yu-cheng yu <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-01-12 13:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/4] x86/fpu: Fix early fpu command-line parsing yu-cheng yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-06 23:40 +0100
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing tip-bot for yu-cheng yu <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-01-12 13:10 +0100
      Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-15 21:30 +0100
        Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-15 22:00 +0100
          Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-15 22:10 +0100
          Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/fpu: Fix early FPU command-line parsing Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-15 22:10 +0100

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