x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned

The Intel Optimization Reference Guide says:

	In Intel Atom microarchitecture, the address generation unit
	assumes that the segment base will be 0 by default. Non-zero
	segment base will cause load and store operations to experience
	a delay.
		- If the segment base isn't aligned to a cache line
		  boundary, the max throughput of memory operations is
		  reduced to one [e]very 9 cycles.
	[...]
	Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 15. (H impact, ML generality)
	For Intel Atom processors, use segments with base set to 0
	whenever possible; avoid non-zero segment base address that is
	not aligned to cache line boundary at all cost.

We can't avoid having a non-zero base for the stack-protector
segment, but we can make it cache-aligned.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AA01893.6000507@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index c7768269b1cf..e597ecc8753c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -403,7 +403,17 @@ extern unsigned long kernel_eflags;
 extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void);
 #else	/* X86_64 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, stack_canary);
+/*
+ * Make sure stack canary segment base is cached-aligned:
+ *   "For Intel Atom processors, avoid non zero segment base address
+ *    that is not aligned to cache line boundary at all cost."
+ * (Optim Ref Manual Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 15.)
+ */
+struct stack_canary {
+	char __pad[20];		/* canary at %gs:20 */
+	unsigned long canary;
+};
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct stack_canary, stack_canary) ____cacheline_aligned;
 #endif
 #endif	/* X86_64 */