x86/cpu-policy: Hide CLWB by default on SKX/CLX/CPX

The August 2023 microcode for GDS has an impact on the CLWB instruction.  See
code comments for full details.

This is part of XSA-435 / CVE-2022-40982

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2dd06b4ea10891750af38e4a0e1efaeb0a9b3518)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu-policy.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu-policy.c
index 99914b0bff4242a257b25cf5c01f7a01dda5b5bd..fe85f1f960f1ad444ca5eaaae23501736d6d6a37 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu-policy.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu-policy.c
@@ -433,6 +433,18 @@ static void __init guest_common_max_feature_adjustments(uint32_t *fs)
         __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPS, fs);
         __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_RSBA, fs);
         __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_RRSBA, fs);
+
+        /*
+         * The Gather Data Sampling microcode mitigation (August 2023) has an
+         * adverse performance impact on the CLWB instruction on SKX/CLX/CPX.
+         *
+         * We hid CLWB in the host policy to stop Xen using it, but VMs which
+         * have previously seen the CLWB feature can safely run on this CPU.
+         */
+        if ( boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6 &&
+             boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x55 /* INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X */ &&
+             raw_cpu_policy.feat.clwb )
+            __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CLWB, fs);
     }
 }
 
@@ -455,6 +467,19 @@ static void __init guest_common_default_feature_adjustments(uint32_t *fs)
              boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x3a /* INTEL_FAM6_IVYBRIDGE */ &&
              cpu_has_rdrand && !is_forced_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RDRAND) )
             __clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_RDRAND, fs);
+
+        /*
+         * The Gather Data Sampling microcode mitigation (August 2023) has an
+         * adverse performance impact on the CLWB instruction on SKX/CLX/CPX.
+         *
+         * We hid CLWB in the host policy to stop Xen using it, but re-added
+         * it to the max policy to let VMs migrate in.  Re-hide it in the
+         * default policy to disuade VMs from using it in the common case.
+         */
+        if ( boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6 &&
+             boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x55 /* INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X */ &&
+             raw_cpu_policy.feat.clwb )
+            __clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_CLWB, fs);
     }
 
     /*

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
index 21419e08c371a10617cd59722de775d1b6ecd41a..2bda64c93ac561a81d77eb8d64248f16ee7250ab 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
@@ -518,6 +518,18 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
        if ((opt_cpu_info && !(c->apicid & (c->x86_num_siblings - 1))) ||
            c == &boot_cpu_data )
                intel_log_freq(c);
+
+       /*
+        * The Gather Data Sampling microcode mitigation (August 2023) has an
+        * adverse performance impact on the CLWB instruction on SKX/CLX/CPX.
+        *
+        * On this model, CLWB has equivalent behaviour to CLFLUSHOPT but the
+        * latter is not impacted.  Hide CLWB to cause Xen to fall back to
+        * using CLFLUSHOPT instead.
+        */
+       if (c == &boot_cpu_data &&
+           c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 0x55 /* INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X */)
+               setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_CLWB);
 }
 
 const struct cpu_dev intel_cpu_dev = {

diff --git a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
index db7478a3e0badc7d88866acdbd106a8ffbcbf174..3274ac3e9a3bb00baabdf019742f216f0d44c4f2 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ XEN_CPUFEATURE(ADX,           5*32+19) /*A  ADCX, ADOX instructions */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(SMAP,          5*32+20) /*S  Supervisor Mode Access Prevention */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(AVX512_IFMA,   5*32+21) /*A  AVX-512 Integer Fused Multiply Add */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(CLFLUSHOPT,    5*32+23) /*A  CLFLUSHOPT instruction */
-XEN_CPUFEATURE(CLWB,          5*32+24) /*A  CLWB instruction */
+XEN_CPUFEATURE(CLWB,          5*32+24) /*!A CLWB instruction */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(AVX512PF,      5*32+26) /*A  AVX-512 Prefetch Instructions */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(AVX512ER,      5*32+27) /*A  AVX-512 Exponent & Reciprocal Instrs */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(AVX512CD,      5*32+28) /*A  AVX-512 Conflict Detection Instrs */