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Avoid save/restoring AMX registers to avoid a SPR erratum
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Intel SPR erratum SPR4 says that if you trip into a vmexit while
doing FPU save/restore, your AMX register state might misbehave...
and by misbehave, I mean save all zeroes incorrectly, leading to
explosions if you restore it.

Since we're not using AMX for anything, the simple way to avoid
this is to just not save/restore those when we do anything, since
we're killing preemption of any sort across our save/restores.

If we ever decide to use AMX, it's not clear that we have any
way to mitigate this, on Linux...but I am not an expert.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rich Ercolani <[email protected]>
Closes openzfs#14989
Closes openzfs#15168
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rincebrain authored and behlendorf committed Aug 26, 2023
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19 changes: 14 additions & 5 deletions include/os/linux/kernel/linux/simd_x86.h
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#error "Toolchain needs to support the XSAVE assembler instruction"
#endif

#ifndef XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE
/*
* For kernels where this doesn't exist yet, we still don't want to break
* by save/restoring this broken nonsense.
* See issue #14989 or Intel errata SPR4 for why
*/
#define XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE 0x60000
#endif

#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>

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uint8_t *state = zfs_kfpu_fpregs[smp_processor_id()];
#if defined(HAVE_XSAVES)
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES)) {
kfpu_do_xsave("xsaves", state, ~0);
kfpu_do_xsave("xsaves", state, ~XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE);
return;
}
#endif
#if defined(HAVE_XSAVEOPT)
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT)) {
kfpu_do_xsave("xsaveopt", state, ~0);
kfpu_do_xsave("xsaveopt", state, ~XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE);
return;
}
#endif
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE)) {
kfpu_do_xsave("xsave", state, ~0);
kfpu_do_xsave("xsave", state, ~XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE);
} else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FXSR)) {
kfpu_save_fxsr(state);
} else {
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uint8_t *state = zfs_kfpu_fpregs[smp_processor_id()];
#if defined(HAVE_XSAVES)
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES)) {
kfpu_do_xrstor("xrstors", state, ~0);
kfpu_do_xrstor("xrstors", state, ~XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE);
goto out;
}
#endif
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE)) {
kfpu_do_xrstor("xrstor", state, ~0);
kfpu_do_xrstor("xrstor", state, ~XFEATURE_MASK_XTILE);
} else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FXSR)) {
kfpu_restore_fxsr(state);
} else {
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