From 4aae7e436fa51faf4bf5d11b175aea82cfe8224a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qiaowei Ren Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 07:18:25 -0800 Subject: x86, mpx: Introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific MPX-enabled applications using large swaths of memory can potentially have large numbers of bounds tables in process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system) even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case scenario, the tables can be 4x the size of the data structure being tracked. IOW, a 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table pages. Being this huge, our expectation is that folks using MPX are going to be keen on figuring out how much memory is being dedicated to it. So we need a way to track memory use for MPX. If we want to specifically track MPX VMAs we need to be able to distinguish them from normal VMAs, and keep them from getting merged with normal VMAs. A new VM_ flag set only on MPX VMAs does both of those things. With this flag, MPX bounds-table VMAs can be distinguished from other VMAs, and userspace can also walk /proc/$pid/smaps to get memory usage for MPX. In addition to this flag, we also introduce a special ->vm_ops specific to MPX VMAs (see the patch "add MPX specific mmap interface"), but currently different ->vm_ops do not by themselves prevent VMA merging, so we still need this flag. We understand that VM_ flags are scarce and are open to other options. Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151825.565625B3@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index b46461116cd2..f7606d3a0915 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_HUGETLB 0x00400000 /* Huge TLB Page VM */ #define VM_NONLINEAR 0x00800000 /* Is non-linear (remap_file_pages) */ #define VM_ARCH_1 0x01000000 /* Architecture-specific flag */ +#define VM_ARCH_2 0x02000000 #define VM_DONTDUMP 0x04000000 /* Do not include in the core dump */ #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY @@ -155,6 +156,11 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); # define VM_MAPPED_COPY VM_ARCH_1 /* T if mapped copy of data (nommu mmap) */ #endif +#if defined(CONFIG_X86) +/* MPX specific bounds table or bounds directory */ +# define VM_MPX VM_ARCH_2 +#endif + #ifndef VM_GROWSUP # define VM_GROWSUP VM_NONE #endif -- cgit v1.2.3 From fe3d197f84319d3bce379a9c0dc17b1f48ad358c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 07:18:29 -0800 Subject: x86, mpx: On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables This is really the meat of the MPX patch set. If there is one patch to review in the entire series, this is the one. There is a new ABI here and this kernel code also interacts with userspace memory in a relatively unusual manner. (small FAQ below). Long Description: This patch adds two prctl() commands to provide enable or disable the management of bounds tables in kernel, including on-demand kernel allocation (See the patch "on-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables") and cleanup (See the patch "cleanup unused bound tables"). Applications do not strictly need the kernel to manage bounds tables and we expect some applications to use MPX without taking advantage of this kernel support. This means the kernel can not simply infer whether an application needs bounds table management from the MPX registers. The prctl() is an explicit signal from userspace. PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT is meant to be a signal from userspace to require kernel's help in managing bounds tables. PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT is the opposite, meaning that userspace don't want kernel's help any more. With PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT, the kernel won't allocate and free bounds tables even if the CPU supports MPX. PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT will fetch the base address of the bounds directory out of a userspace register (bndcfgu) and then cache it into a new field (->bd_addr) in the 'mm_struct'. PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT will set "bd_addr" to an invalid address. Using this scheme, we can use "bd_addr" to determine whether the management of bounds tables in kernel is enabled. Also, the only way to access that bndcfgu register is via an xsaves, which can be expensive. Caching "bd_addr" like this also helps reduce the cost of those xsaves when doing table cleanup at munmap() time. Unfortunately, we can not apply this optimization to #BR fault time because we need an xsave to get the value of BNDSTATUS. ==== Why does the hardware even have these Bounds Tables? ==== MPX only has 4 hardware registers for storing bounds information. If MPX-enabled code needs more than these 4 registers, it needs to spill them somewhere. It has two special instructions for this which allow the bounds to be moved between the bounds registers and some new "bounds tables". They are similar conceptually to a page fault and will be raised by the MPX hardware during both bounds violations or when the tables are not present. This patch handles those #BR exceptions for not-present tables by carving the space out of the normal processes address space (essentially calling the new mmap() interface indroduced earlier in this patch set.) and then pointing the bounds-directory over to it. The tables *need* to be accessed and controlled by userspace because the instructions for moving bounds in and out of them are extremely frequent. They potentially happen every time a register pointing to memory is dereferenced. Any direct kernel involvement (like a syscall) to access the tables would obviously destroy performance. ==== Why not do this in userspace? ==== This patch is obviously doing this allocation in the kernel. However, MPX does not strictly *require* anything in the kernel. It can theoretically be done completely from userspace. Here are a few ways this *could* be done. I don't think any of them are practical in the real-world, but here they are. Q: Can virtual space simply be reserved for the bounds tables so that we never have to allocate them? A: As noted earlier, these tables are *HUGE*. An X-GB virtual area needs 4*X GB of virtual space, plus 2GB for the bounds directory. If we were to preallocate them for the 128TB of user virtual address space, we would need to reserve 512TB+2GB, which is larger than the entire virtual address space today. This means they can not be reserved ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-popualated bounds directory consumes 2GB of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories. Q: Can we preallocate bounds table space at the same time memory is allocated which might contain pointers that might eventually need bounds tables? A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory allocation syscall. This can be done for small, constrained applications. But, it isn't practical at a larger scale since a given app has no way of controlling how all the parts of the app might allocate memory (think libraries). The kernel is really the only place to intercept these calls. Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel? A: (thanks to tglx) mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to keep track of the allocation state there. Having ruled out all of the userspace-only approaches for managing bounds tables that we could think of, we create them on demand in the kernel. Based-on-patch-by: Qiaowei Ren Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151829.AD4310DE@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 6e0b286649f1..004e9d17b47e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -454,6 +454,10 @@ struct mm_struct { bool tlb_flush_pending; #endif struct uprobes_state uprobes_state; +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MPX + /* address of the bounds directory */ + void __user *bd_addr; +#endif }; static inline void mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm) -- cgit v1.2.3