kernel/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

Merge tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-09-30T21:36:20Z

Pull TIF bit unification updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A set of changes to consolidate the generic TIF (thread info flag) bits accross architectures. All architectures define the same set of generic TIF bits. This makes it pointlessly hard to add a new generic TIF bit or to change an existing one. Provide a generic variant and convert the architectures which utilize the generic entry code over to use it. The TIF space is divided into 16 generic bits and 16 architecture specific bits, which turned out to provide enough space on both sides" * tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: LoongArch: Fix bitflag conflict for TIF_FIXADE riscv: Use generic TIF bits loongarch: Use generic TIF bits s390/entry: Remove unused TIF flags s390: Use generic TIF bits x86: Use generic TIF bits asm-generic: Provide generic TIF infrastructure

riscv: Use generic TIF bits

2025-09-17T06:14:05Z

No point in defining generic items and the upcoming RSEQ optimizations are only available with this _and_ the generic entry infrastructure, which is already used by RISCV. So no further action required here. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

riscv: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-09-16T22:25:30Z

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now. This originally was a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement), with some manual fixups during rebasing of the patch later. Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606070952.498274-3-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

riscv: add PREEMPT_LAZY support

2024-11-05T11:55:39Z

riscv has switched to GENERIC_ENTRY, so adding PREEMPT_LAZY is as simple as adding TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY related definitions and enabling ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY. [bigeasy: Replace old PREEMPT_AUTO bits with new PREEMPT_LAZY ] Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241021151257.102296-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de

riscv: Fix kernel stack size when KASAN is enabled

2024-10-01T20:08:11Z

We use Kconfig to select the kernel stack size, doubling the default size if KASAN is enabled. But that actually only works if KASAN is selected from the beginning, meaning that if KASAN config is added later (for example using menuconfig), CONFIG_THREAD_SIZE_ORDER won't be updated, keeping the default size, which is not enough for KASAN as reported in [1]. So fix this by moving the logic to compute the right kernel stack into a header. Fixes: a7555f6b62e7 ("riscv: stack: Add config of thread stack size") Reported-by: syzbot+ba9eac24453387a9d502@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000eb301906222aadc2@google.com/ [1] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240917150328.59831-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

Merge patch series "Svvptc extension to remove preventive sfence.vma"

2024-09-16T03:58:24Z

Alexandre Ghiti says: In RISC-V, after a new mapping is established, a sfence.vma needs to be emitted for different reasons: - if the uarch caches invalid entries, we need to invalidate it otherwise we would trap on this invalid entry, - if the uarch does not cache invalid entries, a reordered access could fail to see the new mapping and then trap (sfence.vma acts as a fence). We can actually avoid emitting those (mostly) useless and costly sfence.vma by handling the traps instead: - for new kernel mappings: only vmalloc mappings need to be taken care of, other new mapping are rare and already emit the required sfence.vma if needed. That must be achieved very early in the exception path as explained in patch 3, and this also fixes our fragile way of dealing with vmalloc faults. - for new user mappings: Svvptc makes update_mmu_cache() a no-op but we can take some gratuitous page faults (which are very unlikely though). Patch 1 and 2 introduce Svvptc extension probing. On our uarch that does not cache invalid entries and a 6.5 kernel, the gains are measurable: * Kernel boot: 6% * ltp - mmapstress01: 8% * lmbench - lat_pagefault: 20% * lmbench - lat_mmap: 5% Here are the corresponding numbers of sfence.vma emitted: * Ubuntu boot to login: Before: ~630k sfence.vma After: ~200k sfence.vma * ltp - mmapstress01 Before: ~45k After: ~6.3k * lmbench - lat_pagefault Before: ~665k After: 832 (!) * lmbench - lat_mmap Before: ~546k After: 718 (!) Thanks to Ved and Matt Evans for triggering the discussion that led to this patchset! * b4-shazam-merge: riscv: Stop emitting preventive sfence.vma for new userspace mappings with Svvptc riscv: Stop emitting preventive sfence.vma for new vmalloc mappings dt-bindings: riscv: Add Svvptc ISA extension description riscv: Add ISA extension parsing for Svvptc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717060125.139416-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: Remove unused _TIF_WORK_MASK

2024-09-16T03:15:50Z

Since commit f0bddf50586d ("riscv: entry: Convert to generic entry"), _TIF_WORK_MASK is no longer used, so remove it. Fixes: f0bddf50586d ("riscv: entry: Convert to generic entry") Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan Reviewed-by: Guo Ren Reviewed-by: Andy Chiu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240711111508.1373322-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: Stop emitting preventive sfence.vma for new vmalloc mappings

2024-09-15T07:11:04Z

In 6.5, we removed the vmalloc fault path because that can't work (see [1] [2]). Then in order to make sure that new page table entries were seen by the page table walker, we had to preventively emit a sfence.vma on all harts [3] but this solution is very costly since it relies on IPI. And even there, we could end up in a loop of vmalloc faults if a vmalloc allocation is done in the IPI path (for example if it is traced, see [4]), which could result in a kernel stack overflow. Those preventive sfence.vma needed to be emitted because: - if the uarch caches invalid entries, the new mapping may not be observed by the page table walker and an invalidation may be needed. - if the uarch does not cache invalid entries, a reordered access could "miss" the new mapping and traps: in that case, we would actually only need to retry the access, no sfence.vma is required. So this patch removes those preventive sfence.vma and actually handles the possible (and unlikely) exceptions. And since the kernel stacks mappings lie in the vmalloc area, this handling must be done very early when the trap is taken, at the very beginning of handle_exception: this also rules out the vmalloc allocations in the fault path. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230531093817.665799-1-bjorn@kernel.org/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230801090927.2018653-1-dylan@andestech.com [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230725132246.817726-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/ [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200508144043.13893-1-joro@8bytes.org/ [4] Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti Reviewed-by: Yunhui Cui Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717060125.139416-4-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: enable HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK

2024-07-26T12:50:47Z

Add support for the stackleak feature. Whenever the kernel returns to user space the kernel stack is filled with a poison value. At the same time, disables the plugin in EFI stub code because EFI stub is out of scope for the protection. Tested on qemu and milkv duo: / # echo STACKLEAK_ERASING > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT [ 38.675575] lkdtm: Performing direct entry STACKLEAK_ERASING [ 38.678448] lkdtm: stackleak stack usage: [ 38.678448] high offset: 288 bytes [ 38.678448] current: 496 bytes [ 38.678448] lowest: 1328 bytes [ 38.678448] tracked: 1328 bytes [ 38.678448] untracked: 448 bytes [ 38.678448] poisoned: 14312 bytes [ 38.678448] low offset: 8 bytes [ 38.689887] lkdtm: OK: the rest of the thread stack is properly erased Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240623235316.2010-1-jszhang@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

Merge patch series "riscv: support kernel-mode Vector"

2024-01-16T15:14:04Z

Andy Chiu says: This series provides support running Vector in kernel mode. Additionally, kernel-mode Vector can be configured to run without turnning off preemption on a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel. Along with the suport, we add Vector optimized copy_{to,from}_user. And provide a simple threshold to decide when to run the vectorized functions. We decided to drop vectorized memcpy/memset/memmove for the moment due to the concern of memory side-effect in kernel_vector_begin(). The detailed description can be found at v9[0] This series is composed by 4 parts: patch 1-4: adds basic support for kernel-mode Vector patch 5: includes vectorized copy_{to,from}_user into the kernel patch 6: refactor context switch code in fpu [1] patch 7-10: provides some code refactors and support for preemptible kernel-mode Vector. This series can be merged if we feel any part of {1~4, 5, 6, 7~10} is mature enough. This patch is tested on a QEMU with V and verified that booting, normal userspace operations all work as usual with thresholds set to 0. Also, we test by launching multiple kernel threads which continuously executes and verifies Vector operations in the background. The module that tests these operation is expected to be upstream later. * b4-shazam-merge: riscv: vector: allow kernel-mode Vector with preemption riscv: vector: use kmem_cache to manage vector context riscv: vector: use a mask to write vstate_ctrl riscv: vector: do not pass task_struct into riscv_v_vstate_{save,restore}() riscv: fpu: drop SR_SD bit checking riscv: lib: vectorize copy_to_user/copy_from_user riscv: sched: defer restoring Vector context for user riscv: Add vector extension XOR implementation riscv: vector: make Vector always available for softirq context riscv: Add support for kernel mode vector Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240115055929.4736-1-andy.chiu@sifive.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt