From c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:17:48 +0200 Subject: 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 Tested-by: Chris Webb Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h') 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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3