From 1ea0d14e480c245683927eecc03a70faf06e80c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:27:15 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: LKML-Reference: <4AA01893.6000507@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h') 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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3