x86/entry: Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD

Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. This flag is used for loading the FPU registers
before returning to userland. It must not be set on systems without a
FPU.

If this flag is cleared, the CPU's FPU registers hold the latest,
up-to-date content of the current task's (current()) FPU registers.
The in-memory copy (union fpregs_state) is not valid.

If this flag is set, then all of CPU's FPU registers may hold a random
value (except for PKRU) and it is required to load the content of the
FPU registers on return to userland.

Introduce it now as a preparatory change before adding the main feature.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Aubrey Li <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: kvm ML <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored and Borislav Petkov committed 2019-04-11 16:21:51 +02:00
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@@ -508,6 +508,14 @@ static inline void __fpregs_load_activate(struct fpu *fpu, int cpu)
* - switch_fpu_finish() restores the new state as
* necessary.
*
* If TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD is cleared then the CPU's FPU registers
* are saved in the current thread's FPU register state.
*
* If TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD is set then CPU's FPU registers may not
* hold current()'s FPU registers. It is required to load the
* registers before returning to userland or using the content
* otherwise.
*
* The FPU context is only stored/restored for a user task and
* ->mm is used to distinguish between kernel and user threads.
*/
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@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct thread_info {
#define TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY 11 /* notify kernel of userspace return */
#define TIF_UPROBE 12 /* breakpointed or singlestepping */
#define TIF_PATCH_PENDING 13 /* pending live patching update */
#define TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD 14 /* load FPU on return to userspace */
#define TIF_NOCPUID 15 /* CPUID is not accessible in userland */
#define TIF_NOTSC 16 /* TSC is not accessible in userland */
#define TIF_IA32 17 /* IA32 compatibility process */
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ struct thread_info {
#define _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY (1 << TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
#define _TIF_UPROBE (1 << TIF_UPROBE)
#define _TIF_PATCH_PENDING (1 << TIF_PATCH_PENDING)
#define _TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD (1 << TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD)
#define _TIF_NOCPUID (1 << TIF_NOCPUID)
#define _TIF_NOTSC (1 << TIF_NOTSC)
#define _TIF_IA32 (1 << TIF_IA32)