Re: [PATCH v2] x86/xen: Fix 32-bit PV guests's usage of kernel_stack

From: David Vrabel
Date: Thu Apr 10 2014 - 14:20:40 EST


On 10/04/14 17:17, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Commit 198d208df4371734ac4728f69cb585c284d20a15 ("x86: Keep thread_info
> on thread stack in x86_32") made 32-bit kernels use kernel_stack to point to
> thread_info. That change missed a couple of updates needed by Xen's
> 32-bit PV guests:
>
> 1. kernel_stack needs to be initialized for secondary CPUs
> 2. GET_THREAD_INFO() now uses %fs register which may not be the kernel's
> version when executing xen_iret().
>
> With respect to the second issue, we don't need GET_THREAD_INFO()
> anymore: we used it as an intermediate step to get to per_cpu xen_vcpu and avoid
> referencing %fs. Now that we are going to use %fs anyway we may as well go
> directly to xen_vcpu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 3 ++-
> arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> index a18eadd..7005974 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> @@ -441,10 +441,11 @@ static int xen_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
> irq_ctx_init(cpu);
> #else
> clear_tsk_thread_flag(idle, TIF_FORK);
> +#endif
> per_cpu(kernel_stack, cpu) =
> (unsigned long)task_stack_page(idle) -
> KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET + THREAD_SIZE;
> -#endif
> +
> xen_setup_runstate_info(cpu);
> xen_setup_timer(cpu);
> xen_init_lock_cpu(cpu);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S b/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
> index 33ca6e4..fd92a64 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
> @@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ ENDPROC(xen_sysexit)
> * stack state in whatever form its in, we keep things simple by only
> * using a single register which is pushed/popped on the stack.
> */
> +
> +.macro POP_FS
> +1:
> + popw %fs
> +.pushsection .fixup, "ax"
> +2: movw $0, (%esp)
> + jmp 1b
> +.popsection
> + _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,2b)
> +.endm
> +
> ENTRY(xen_iret)
> /* test eflags for special cases */
> testl $(X86_EFLAGS_VM | XEN_EFLAGS_NMI), 8(%esp)
> @@ -83,15 +94,13 @@ ENTRY(xen_iret)
> push %eax
> ESP_OFFSET=4 # bytes pushed onto stack
>
> - /*
> - * Store vcpu_info pointer for easy access. Do it this way to
> - * avoid having to reload %fs
> - */
> + /* Store vcpu_info pointer for easy access */
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> - GET_THREAD_INFO(%eax)
> - movl %ss:TI_cpu(%eax), %eax
> - movl %ss:__per_cpu_offset(,%eax,4), %eax
> - mov %ss:xen_vcpu(%eax), %eax
> + pushw %fs
> + movl $(__KERNEL_PERCPU), %eax
> + movl %eax, %fs
> + movl %fs:xen_vcpu, %eax

How can this get the correct per-cpu xen_vcpu pointer if it doesn't ever
get the current cpu number? Doesn't this always get VCPU#0's xen_vcpu?

David
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