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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [PATCH v4 04/14] x86/boot: Document the ordering dependency of _svm_cpu_up()
Lets just say this took an unreasoanble amount of time and effort to track
down, when trying to move traps_init() earlier during boot.
When the SYSCALL linkage MSRs are not configured ahead of _svm_cpu_up() on the
BSP, the first context switch into PV uses svm_load_segs() and clobbers the
later-set-up linkage with the 0's cached here, causing hypercalls issues by
the PV guest to enter at 0 in supervisor mode on the user stack.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
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CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
v4:
* New
It occurs to me that it's not actually 0's we cache here. It's whatever
context was left from prior to Xen. We still don't reliably clean unused
MSRs.
---
xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
xen/arch/x86/setup.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
index 18ba837738c6..f1e02d919cae 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <asm/p2m.h>
#include <asm/paging.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/vm_event.h>
#include <asm/x86_emulate.h>
@@ -1581,6 +1582,21 @@ static int _svm_cpu_up(bool bsp)
/* Initialize OSVW bits to be used by guests */
svm_host_osvw_init();
+ /*
+ * VMSAVE writes out the current full FS, GS, LDTR and TR segments, and
+ * the GS_SHADOW, SYSENTER and SYSCALL linkage MSRs.
+ *
+ * The segment data gets modified by the svm_load_segs() optimisation for
+ * PV context switches, but all values get reloaded at that point, as well
+ * as during context switch from SVM.
+ *
+ * If PV guests are available (and FRED is not in use), it is critical
+ * that the SYSCALL linkage MSRs been configured at this juncture.
+ */
+ ASSERT(opt_fred >= 0); /* Confirm that FRED-ness has been resolved */
+ if ( IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PV) && !opt_fred )
+ ASSERT(rdmsr(MSR_LSTAR));
+
svm_vmsave_pa(per_cpu(host_vmcb, cpu));
return 0;
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
index 27c63d1d97c9..675de3a649ea 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
@@ -2078,7 +2078,7 @@ void asmlinkage __init noreturn __start_xen(void)
&this_cpu(stubs).mfn);
BUG_ON(!this_cpu(stubs.addr));
- traps_init(); /* Needs stubs allocated. */
+ traps_init(); /* Needs stubs allocated, must be before presmp_initcalls. */
cpu_init();
--
2.39.5
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