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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU> | 2011-08-03 09:31:53 -0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2011-08-04 16:13:49 -0700 |
| commit | 318f5a2a672152328c9fb4dead504b89ec738a43 (patch) | |
| tree | d37bcc93c8c1b29c057c44dac13148531706631e /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | 5d5791af4c0d4fd32093882357506355c3357503 (diff) | |
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3
selector is __USER_CS. This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq
changes cs to the magic value 0xe033.
Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve
vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling"
(c9712944b2a12373cb6ff8059afcfb7e826a6c54), vsyscalls will segfault
if called with Xen's extra CS selector. This causes a panic when
older init builds die.
It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without
taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the
tests instead with a new paravirt op. It's a little ugly because
ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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