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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2014-09-22 15:17:48 +0400 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2014-09-24 16:07:57 +0400 |
| commit | c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343 (patch) | |
| tree | 57dce6397f2dbf19701fa1a7671abcde453e170b /arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | |
| parent | 81760dccf8d1fe5b128b58736fe3f56a566133cb (diff) | |
| download | linux-c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343.tar.xz | |
x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
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 |