Re: [PATCH] fix broken x86 SMP boot sequence

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 18:49:39 EST


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:08 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> I'm not adverse to making the gdt descriptors part of the per-cpu data.
> But I think your patch is missing some necessary changes to
> include/asm-i386/desc.h - what do you plan to do with the following
> definition there?
>
> extern struct Xgt_desc_struct idt_descr, cpu_gdt_descr[NR_CPUS];

Actually, I checked ... it looks like the externel definition of
cpu_gdt_descr can be dumped ... nothing's using it (well, at least in a
voyager build), so I updated the patch.

James

---

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
index cbc3206..d561a56 100644
Index: BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
===================================================================
--- BUILD-2.6.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2006-02-22 13:53:43.000000000 -0600
+++ BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2006-02-22 15:28:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <asm/semaphore.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/i387.h>
@@ -18,6 +19,9 @@

#include "cpu.h"

+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct Xgt_desc_struct, cpu_gdt_descr);
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_gdt_descr);
+
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, cpu_16bit_stack[CPU_16BIT_STACK_SIZE]);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_16bit_stack);

@@ -571,8 +575,9 @@
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
struct tss_struct * t = &per_cpu(init_tss, cpu);
struct thread_struct *thread = &current->thread;
- struct desc_struct *gdt = get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu);
+ struct desc_struct *gdt;
__u32 stk16_off = (__u32)&per_cpu(cpu_16bit_stack, cpu);
+ struct Xgt_desc_struct *cpu_gdt_descr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, cpu);

if (cpu_test_and_set(cpu, cpu_initialized)) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "CPU#%d already initialized!\n", cpu);
@@ -589,6 +594,22 @@
set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_TSD);
}

+ /* This is a horrible hack to allocate the GDT. The problem
+ * is that cpu_init() is called really early for the boot CPU
+ * (and hence needs bootmem) but much later for the secondary
+ * CPUs, when bootmem will have gone away */
+ if (NODE_DATA(0)->bdata->node_bootmem_map) {
+ gdt = (struct desc_struct *)alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
+ /* alloc_bootmem_pages panics on failure, so no check */
+ memset(gdt, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ } else {
+ gdt = (struct desc_struct *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (unlikely(!gdt)) {
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU%d failed to allocate GDT\n", cpu);
+ for (;;) local_irq_enable();
+ }
+ }
+
/*
* Initialize the per-CPU GDT with the boot GDT,
* and set up the GDT descriptor:
@@ -601,10 +622,10 @@
((((__u64)stk16_off) << 32) & 0xff00000000000000ULL) |
(CPU_16BIT_STACK_SIZE - 1);

- cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
- cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address = (unsigned long)gdt;
+ cpu_gdt_descr->size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
+ cpu_gdt_descr->address = (unsigned long)gdt;

- load_gdt(&cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]);
+ load_gdt(cpu_gdt_descr);
load_idt(&idt_descr);

/*
Index: BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/head.S
===================================================================
--- BUILD-2.6.orig/arch/i386/kernel/head.S 2006-02-22 13:53:43.000000000 -0600
+++ BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/head.S 2006-02-22 15:28:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -534,5 +534,3 @@
.quad 0x0000000000000000 /* 0xf0 - unused */
.quad 0x0000000000000000 /* 0xf8 - GDT entry 31: double-fault TSS */

- /* Be sure this is zeroed to avoid false validations in Xen */
- .fill PAGE_SIZE_asm / 8 - GDT_ENTRIES,8,0
Index: BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================
--- BUILD-2.6.orig/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2006-02-22 13:53:43.000000000 -0600
+++ BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2006-02-22 15:28:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -898,12 +898,6 @@
unsigned long start_eip;
unsigned short nmi_high = 0, nmi_low = 0;

- if (!cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address &&
- !(cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL))) {
- printk("Failed to allocate GDT for CPU %d\n", cpu);
- return 1;
- }
-
++cpucount;

/*
Index: BUILD-2.6/include/asm-i386/desc.h
===================================================================
--- BUILD-2.6.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2006-02-22 13:53:47.000000000 -0600
+++ BUILD-2.6/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2006-02-22 15:28:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@
unsigned short pad;
} __attribute__ ((packed));

-extern struct Xgt_desc_struct idt_descr, cpu_gdt_descr[NR_CPUS];
+extern struct Xgt_desc_struct idt_descr;
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct Xgt_desc_struct, cpu_gdt_descr);
+

static inline struct desc_struct *get_cpu_gdt_table(unsigned int cpu)
{
- return ((struct desc_struct *)cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address);
+ return (struct desc_struct *)per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, cpu).address;
}

#define load_TR_desc() __asm__ __volatile__("ltr %w0"::"q" (GDT_ENTRY_TSS*8))
Index: BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c
===================================================================
--- BUILD-2.6.orig/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c 2006-02-22 15:26:57.000000000 -0600
+++ BUILD-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c 2006-02-22 15:28:54.000000000 -0600
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
#include <asm/checksum.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>

-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_gdt_descr);
-
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__down_failed);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__down_failed_interruptible);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__down_failed_trylock);


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