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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2014-09-22 13:17:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-12-06 15:57:34 -0800 |
| commit | 2b385019adf661fa20ae263103096acc4e05447d (patch) | |
| tree | 4df8173658c5baa0b6d46ca3b0fe08ac181c3a08 | |
| parent | f886cdf1f8cb08cd793abb88ac646c3664b83db6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2b385019adf661fa20ae263103096acc4e05447d.tar.gz lwn-2b385019adf661fa20ae263103096acc4e05447d.zip | |
x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only
commit c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343 upstream.
On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
as required on AMD processors.
The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
is a KVM bug that has to be fixed. However, picking the right instruction
between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
the hypervisor.
Reported-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Tested-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 7 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index bb9b258d60e7..2075e6c34c78 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_DECODEASSISTS ( 8*32+12) /* AMD Decode Assists support */ #define X86_FEATURE_PAUSEFILTER ( 8*32+13) /* AMD filtered pause intercept */ #define X86_FEATURE_PFTHRESHOLD ( 8*32+14) /* AMD pause filter threshold */ +#define X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL ( 8*32+15) /* Prefer vmmcall to vmcall */ /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ebx), word 9 */ diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h index c7678e43465b..e62cf897f781 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #define _ASM_X86_KVM_PARA_H #include <asm/processor.h> +#include <asm/alternative.h> #include <uapi/asm/kvm_para.h> extern void kvmclock_init(void); @@ -16,10 +17,15 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(void) } #endif /* CONFIG_KVM_GUEST */ -/* This instruction is vmcall. On non-VT architectures, it will generate a - * trap that we will then rewrite to the appropriate instruction. +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA +#define KVM_HYPERCALL \ + ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL) +#else +/* On AMD processors, vmcall will generate a trap that we will + * then rewrite to the appropriate instruction. */ #define KVM_HYPERCALL ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1" +#endif /* For KVM hypercalls, a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall * instruction. The hypervisor may replace it with something else but only the diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index 60e5497681f5..813d29d00a17 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -525,6 +525,13 @@ static void early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) } #endif + /* + * This is only needed to tell the kernel whether to use VMCALL + * and VMMCALL. VMMCALL is never executed except under virt, so + * we can set it unconditionally. + */ + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL); + /* F16h erratum 793, CVE-2013-6885 */ if (c->x86 == 0x16 && c->x86_model <= 0xf) msr_set_bit(MSR_AMD64_LS_CFG, 15); |