x86/docs: Remove reference to syscall trampoline in PTI

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  bf904d2762 ("x86/pti/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline")

removed the syscall trampoline and instead opted to enable using the
default SYSCALL64 entry point by mapping the percpu TSS. Unfortunately,
the PTI documentation wasn't updated when the respective changes were
made, so bring the doc up to speed.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231102130204.41043-1-nik.borisov@suse.com
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Nikolay Borisov 2023-11-02 15:02:04 +02:00 committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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@ -81,11 +81,9 @@ this protection comes at a cost:
and exit (it can be skipped when the kernel is interrupted,
though.) Moves to CR3 are on the order of a hundred
cycles, and are required at every entry and exit.
b. A "trampoline" must be used for SYSCALL entry. This
trampoline depends on a smaller set of resources than the
non-PTI SYSCALL entry code, so requires mapping fewer
things into the userspace page tables. The downside is
that stacks must be switched at entry time.
b. Percpu TSS is mapped into the user page tables to allow SYSCALL64 path
to work under PTI. This doesn't have a direct runtime cost but it can
be argued it opens certain timing attack scenarios.
c. Global pages are disabled for all kernel structures not
mapped into both kernel and userspace page tables. This
feature of the MMU allows different processes to share TLB
@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ that are worth noting here.
* Failures of the selftests/x86 code. Usually a bug in one of the
more obscure corners of entry_64.S
* Crashes in early boot, especially around CPU bringup. Bugs
in the trampoline code or mappings cause these.
in the mappings cause these.
* Crashes at the first interrupt. Caused by bugs in entry_64.S,
like screwing up a page table switch. Also caused by
incorrectly mapping the IRQ handler entry code.