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perf(cpu): set DIT only on Apple's platforms, and document it - #503
On every aarch64 core with DIT, rind turned DIT on and off around each call that handles a secret, but that only does anything on Apple's cores:
Arm says DIT "will have no effect on any current Arm hardware" (openssl#28764), so on Graviton, Neoverse, and Cortex the toggle was pure cost: about 1.6 ns a call on Neoverse N2, 11% of a header-protection call (#387).
On Apple's M3, DIT turns off the data memory-dependent prefetcher that GoFetch leaks keys from constant-time code through. It doesn't on M1 or M2.
Finding DIT off Apple took a sysfs MIDR_EL1 table for Linux under Hyper-V and an illegal-instruction probe for Windows.
The cost on Apple, about 45-60 ns a call, was documented only in Dit's rustdoc, so an application had no way to learn to hold Dit::hold() in a hot loop.
Approach
enter_cpu_state and leave_cpu_state touch DIT only for target_vendor = "apple". Elsewhere they compile to nothing, and the dit module and feature bit don't exist.
Delete the Linux core-model table, the Windows probe, and their tests, mutant exclusions, and the ctgrind and coverage RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit denials, which only valgrind on Linux needed.
README gains a "Data-independent timing" section under Usage: what rind sets and where, why it clears DIT on return, the cost, and the Dit::hold() line for batches, which also covers calls made through the adapters. PLATFORMS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, Dit's rustdoc, and the bench report text follow.
The bench's rind (DIT held) column runs only on Apple.
DIT tests and clippy pass natively on an Apple M4 (debug and release). Clippy passes for aarch64 Linux.
Measured on an M4 with a microbenchmark while weighing the alternatives:
ns per call
msr DIT pair around AES work, against none
+20-23
mrs DIT alone
~0.2, free
Work with DIT held, against without
no difference
Impact
No API change. Off Apple, rind no longer sets DIT, and Dit::hold() does nothing there.
Alternatives
Keep DIT everywhere: pays the toggle on Arm cores where it changes nothing.
Never set DIT, as aws-lc-rs and ring: loses the GoFetch mitigation on M3 and later.
Leave DIT on for the thread after its first secret call (~0.5 ns a call): rind would change the state of a thread it doesn't own.
Require a &Dit token in every secret call: the rustls, ring, and aws-lc-rs adapters implement upstream traits with no room for it, so they'd make one per call anyway, and the token would do nothing off Apple.
Follow-ups
moq-dev/moq holds Dit around each QUIC driver poll in a companion PR.
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Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort
Score: 10/10, The incremental changes correctly update mutation exclusions and feature-denial rows for Apple-only DIT handling and clarify the M1/M2 limitation; code inspection found no actionable issues, and builds and tests were not run as instructed.
Arm says DIT changes nothing on its current cores, while on Apple's M3
and later it turns off the prefetcher GoFetch leaks keys through. Drop
the Linux MIDR table and the Windows probe that found DIT elsewhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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docs: explain rind's per-call DIT and when to hold Dit
perf(cpu): set DIT only on Apple's platforms, and document it
Nov 8, 2026
DIT detection and state management now apply only to Apple platforms. The benchmark row for held DIT is limited to Apple CPUs, and related coverage, ctgrind, and mutation tooling is updated. Documentation now describes the Apple-specific behavior and the Dit::hold() guard for batches of calls.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 296a0
Resolve the Linux-on-Apple DIT exception before merging: environments exposing DIT on M3 or later could lose the prefetcher mitigation. Documentation also needs accurate state-restoration and platform qualifications, and a denied-state test would strengthen coverage.
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Important
The code and documentation are consistent and both cfg paths compile, but the mutation-testing cleanup is incomplete: five line-pinned exclusions in .cargo/mutants.toml still point at lines this PR moved, and admin/mutants's aarch64 rows still deny a feature the Linux build no longer reads. Both are quick fixes; the first section below has the details.
Reviewed changes
Reviewed all 13 files: the Apple-only DIT gating in rind/src/low/aarch64/cpu.rs, the deletion of the Linux and Windows detection, and the documentation, bench, and quest updates that follow. Verified by cross-compiling rind for aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu and aarch64-apple-darwin (both clean), running admin/bench-report-test (18/18) and admin/bench-report render --check (clean), checking the README's cost claim against benchmarks/data/kixtop.json (M4: 44-49 ns per call on AES-GCM seals, matching "about 45-60 ns"), and checking the PR's citations against gofetch.fail and openssl#28764 — both accurate.
DIT is Apple-only in the low layer: enter_cpu_state and leave_cpu_state touch DIT only under target_vendor = "apple", the dit module and DIT bit compile only there, and the Linux sysfs MIDR_EL1 core table, the Windows illegal-instruction probe, and their tests and mutant exclusions are deleted.
Test and CI config follows: admin/coverage and admin/ctgrind drop their RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit denials, which nothing on Linux reads anymore, and rind-bench's rind-dit-held row runs only on Apple CPUs.
Documentation: a new README "Data-independent timing" section states the policy, the per-call cost, and Dit::hold() for batches, and PLATFORMS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, Dit's rustdoc, BENCHMARKS.md, and admin/bench-report's emitted prose all agree with it.
Quest records: quest/m1/moq/quic-path.md records the 2026-11-08 narrowing to Apple's platforms, and quest/m3/confidence/mutants-dit.md rescopes to the Apple-only code and the planned Darwin mutants support.
⚠️ Mutation-testing config still points at the old lines and denies a feature that no longer exists
Deleting the Linux and Windows detection moved everything below detect() in rind/src/low/aarch64/cpu.rs up by about 170 lines, but five line-pinned exclude_re entries in .cargo/mutants.toml still name the pre-PR lines, so they will silently stop matching and the next aarch64 admin/mutants run will report five previously-triaged mutants as unexplained survivors. The same cleanup missed admin/mutants's aarch64 denial rows, which still set RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit=1 although no Linux code reads it anymore.
Technical details
# Stale mutant-exclusion pins and dead DIT denial## Affected sites-`.cargo/mutants.toml:41` — pins `rind/src/low/aarch64/cpu.rs:143` (`replace << with >>`, the `const NEON` equivalent mutant); `NEON` is now line 149.
-`.cargo/mutants.toml:190` — pins `:147:` (`const DETECTED`); now line 154.
-`.cargo/mutants.toml:133` — pins `:447:` (`replace prefetch_ro with ()`); the fn's first statement is now line 277.
-`.cargo/mutants.toml:191-192` — pin `:428:` (the plain `test_toggle`'s body, the copy compiled only in a release build without `rind_cpu_disable`); now line 258.
-`admin/mutants:63-64` — the aarch64 rows `"sha3 dit"` and `"aes pmull sha2 sha3 dit"` export `RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit=1`, inert on Linux since `test_toggle("dit", …)` now only runs under `#[cfg(target_vendor = "apple")]`.
## Required outcome- Every `exclude_re` entry matches the mutant it was triaged for, and each aarch64 denial row denies only features the Linux build still reads, so the next aarch64 `admin/mutants` run neither surfaces already-triaged survivors nor runs a no-op denial.
## Suggested approach- Re-pin the five entries to the new lines (149, 154, 277, 258) rather than loosening to `\d+`: the patterns `replace << with >>` and `replace test_toggle -> bool with false/true` also match killable mutants at neighboring lines (`CRYPTO_EXT`, the env-reading `test_toggle`), which a loosened pin would silently exclude. The x86_64 twins at `.cargo/mutants.toml:201-202` (`x86_64/cpu.rs:486`, still correct) show the convention.
- Drop `dit` from the two `admin/mutants` rows, or comment that it returns with the Darwin triples that `quest/m3/confidence/mutants-dit.md` plans.
## Open questions for the human- The two `dit::maybe_enable` exclusions kept at `.cargo/mutants.toml:250-251` are also inert on Linux today; keeping them for the planned Darwin runs (as the quest implies) or deleting them until then are both fine.
ℹ️ A few pre-existing comments now overstate where DIT is set
admin/bench-report:682 still says the DIT-held row is "timed only on a CPU with DIT", while the emitted sentence this PR updated now says Apple only, and rind/src/high/digest.rs and rind/src/high/hmac.rs justify buffering updates skipping Entry with "the cost of enabling DIT", which off Apple no longer exists. One-line touch-ups, nothing blocking.
Technical details
# Stale DIT comments## Affected sites-`admin/bench-report:682` — "rind's DIT-held row is timed only on a CPU with DIT" vs the updated prose at line 1524 ("Only an Apple CPU times it").
-`rind/src/high/digest.rs:352-353`, `rind/src/high/hmac.rs:354-355` — "an update that only buffers skips the cost of enabling DIT".
-`proofs/Rind/X86_64/DigestDispatch.lean:28`, `proofs/Rind/X86_64/HmacDispatch.lean:177` — the same sentence in the Lean proofs.
## Required outcome- The comments name Apple as the only place the DIT cost exists, or drop the DIT mention ("skips entering rind's CPU state" would do).
Add a denied DIT run and check the DIT register during entry.
The Apple arm64 coverage run denies only sha3, so the DIT denial path does not run there. Under denial, enables_dit_whenever_the_cpu_has_it still asserts the feature bit, but it does not check the DIT register. A change that sets DIT inside Entry or Dit::hold despite the denial would pass this run. The register is restored on return, so a check before entry or after drop cannot detect that change.
Add a denied run next to the sha3 run:
Suggested fix
env RIND_CPU_DISABLE_sha3=1 cargo test --locked
+ env RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit=1 cargo test --locked
Add a test that runs only in the denied run. It clears DIT before each check, so a leftover DIT value cannot pass the assertions. It reads the register inside Entry and inside Dit::hold. The expected value comes from the environment setting, not from test_toggle.
Suggested fix
drop(outer);
// SAFETY: as above.
assert_eq!(unsafe { dit::read() }, 0);
}
}
+ // Under `RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit`, neither `Entry` nor `Dit::hold` may set DIT.+ // Each call restores DIT on return, so the register is read during the call.+ #[cfg(target_vendor = "apple")]+ #[test]+ fn denied_dit_stays_clear_during_entry() {+ let denied = cfg!(any(debug_assertions, rind_cpu_disable))+ && std::env::var_os("RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit").is_some();+ // Gate on the environment, not `features()`, which reports DIT off when denied.+ // `child_reads_dit` confirms that this core has DIT, which the register reads need.+ if !denied || !child_reads_dit() {+ return;+ }+ // SAFETY: this core has DIT. Cleared so a stale DIT cannot pass the check.+ unsafe { dit::write(0) };+ let entry = crate::low::Entry::new_secret();+ // SAFETY: as above.+ assert_eq!(unsafe { dit::read() }, 0);+ drop(entry);+ // Clear again, so the hold check does not depend on the entry's state.+ // SAFETY: as above.+ unsafe { dit::write(0) };+ let hold = crate::cpu::Dit::hold();+ // SAFETY: as above.+ assert_eq!(unsafe { dit::read() }, 0);+ drop(hold);+ }+
#[cfg(target_vendor = "apple")]
#[test]
fn dit_hold_keeps_dit_on_across_calls() {
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Review comment at @admin/coverage at line 21:
Add an Apple arm64 test run with RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit=1 alongside the existing
sha3-denied run in the coverage configuration. Add a denied-only test near the
existing DIT tests that gates on the environment setting and confirms the core
supports DIT, clears the register before each check, then reads it inside
Entry::new_secret and Dit::hold to verify neither sets DIT under denial.
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Review comments at @README.md:
- Around line 128-133: Update the Apple silicon DIT paragraph and the Dit API
documentation to state that secret-handling calls restore the incoming DIT state
on return, preserving an already-enabled state rather than implying DIT is
always cleared.
Review comments at @rind/src/low/aarch64/cpu.rs:
- Around line 7-10: Update the DIT selection in the CPU detection function so
Linux on Apple M3 and later cores retains the mitigation. Select DIT based on
the detected CPU rather than gating it solely on target_vendor; use the existing
MIDR_EL1 or detected DIT capability mechanism, preserving the current behavior
on other platforms.
Review comments at @rind/src/low/cpu.rs:
- Around line 48-49: Update the per-call and Dit::hold() documentation to
qualify the DIT guarantee: state that it applies only on Apple AArch64 when DIT
detection succeeds, and clarify that Intel Macs and the portable backend do not
enable DIT.
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Review comments at @admin/coverage:
- Line 21: Add an Apple arm64 test run with RIND_CPU_DISABLE_dit=1 alongside the
existing sha3-denied run in the coverage configuration. Add a denied-only test
near the existing DIT tests that gates on the environment setting and confirms
the core supports DIT, clears the register before each check, then reads it
inside Entry::new_secret and Dit::hold to verify neither sets DIT under denial.
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Document that calls restore the incoming DIT state.
If DIT is already enabled, a secret-handling call leaves it enabled on return. Update this paragraph and the Dit API documentation to describe restoration rather than unconditional clearing.
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Update the Apple silicon DIT paragraph and the Dit API documentation to state
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Keep DIT enabled for Linux running on Apple M3 and later cores.
The target_vendor = "apple" gate removes DIT on Linux. The old detect() set DIT on Linux when the kernel reported HWCAP_DIT, so Linux on these cores loses the mitigation that dit::maybe_enable provided. Select DIT by CPU, not by OS vendor. For example, read the MIDR_EL1 implementer on Linux, or restore the detected!("dit") check for target_os = "linux" on Apple cores.
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Update the DIT selection in the CPU detection function so Linux on Apple M3 and
later cores retains the mitigation. Select DIT based on the detected CPU rather
than gating it solely on target_vendor; use the existing MIDR_EL1 or detected
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Qualify the Apple DIT guarantee.
On Intel Macs, neither secret entries nor Dit::hold() enable DIT. The portable backend also does not enable it, and the Apple AArch64 backend requires successful DIT detection. Please document these limits in both the per-call and guard descriptions.
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Update the per-call and Dit::hold() documentation to qualify the DIT guarantee:
state that it applies only on Apple AArch64 when DIT detection succeeds, and
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Problem
On every aarch64 core with DIT, rind turned DIT on and off around each call that handles a secret, but that only does anything on Apple's cores:
MIDR_EL1table for Linux under Hyper-V and an illegal-instruction probe for Windows.The cost on Apple, about 45-60 ns a call, was documented only in
Dit's rustdoc, so an application had no way to learn to holdDit::hold()in a hot loop.Approach
enter_cpu_stateandleave_cpu_statetouch DIT only fortarget_vendor = "apple". Elsewhere they compile to nothing, and theditmodule and feature bit don't exist.RIND_CPU_DISABLE_ditdenials, which only valgrind on Linux needed.Dit::hold()line for batches, which also covers calls made through the adapters. PLATFORMS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md,Dit's rustdoc, and the bench report text follow.rind (DIT held)column runs only on Apple.DIT tests and clippy pass natively on an Apple M4 (debug and release). Clippy passes for aarch64 Linux.
Measured on an M4 with a microbenchmark while weighing the alternatives:
msr DITpair around AES work, against nonemrs DITaloneImpact
Dit::hold()does nothing there.Alternatives
&Dittoken in every secret call: the rustls, ring, and aws-lc-rs adapters implement upstream traits with no room for it, so they'd make one per call anyway, and the token would do nothing off Apple.Follow-ups
Ditaround each QUIC driver poll in a companion PR.Models
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quest reviewafter each round.01a1bc09-2ee8-70b1-a28c-688b5780ea6c, round 2The incremental changes correctly update mutation exclusions and feature-denial rows for Apple-only DIT handling and clarify the M1/M2 limitation; code inspection found no actionable issues, and builds and tests were not run as instructed.