[PATCH 1/6] xen/x86/pvh: Save %rbx in xen_pvh_early_cpu_init()

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Mon Jul 06 2015 - 23:34:59 EST


x86-64 ABI requires that functions preserve %rbx. When
xen_pvh_early_cpu_init() is executed on boot cpu it is invoked as a
function and 'cpuid' instruction will clobber %rbx. (This is not a
concern on secondary processors since there xen_pvh_early_cpu_init() is
the entry point and thus does not need to preserve registers.)

Since we cannot access stack on secondary processors (PTE's NX bit will
cause #GP on AMD --- see commit a2ef5dc2c7cb ("x86/xen: Set EFER.NX and
EFER.SCE in PVH guests")) we can't always save %rbx on the stack. We
work around this by creating a new entry point for those processors ---
xen_pvh_early_cpu_init_secondary(). Note that on secondary CPUs we will
load %rbx with garbage, which is OK.

As a side effect of these changes we don't need to save %rsi anymore,
since we can use %rbx instead of %rsi as a temporary register.

(We could store %rbx into another scratch register such as %r8 but since
we will need new entry point for 32-bit PVH anyway we go with this
approach for symmetry)

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/xen/smp.h | 4 ++++
arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S | 14 +++++++-------
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
index 8648438..ca7ee1f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
@@ -423,7 +423,8 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
* bit set. This means before DS/SS is touched, NX in
* EFER must be set. Hence the following assembly glue code.
*/
- ctxt->user_regs.eip = (unsigned long)xen_pvh_early_cpu_init;
+ ctxt->user_regs.eip =
+ (unsigned long)xen_pvh_early_cpu_init_secondary;
ctxt->user_regs.rdi = cpu;
ctxt->user_regs.rsi = true; /* entry == true */
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.h b/arch/x86/xen/smp.h
index 963d62a..bf2b43c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.h
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.h
@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ extern void xen_send_IPI_self(int vector);

#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_PVH
extern void xen_pvh_early_cpu_init(int cpu, bool entry);
+extern void xen_pvh_early_cpu_init_secondary(int cpu, bool entry);
#else
static inline void xen_pvh_early_cpu_init(int cpu, bool entry)
{
}
+static inline void xen_pvh_early_cpu_init_secondary(int cpu, bool entry)
+{
+}
#endif

#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
index 8afdfcc..b1508a8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
@@ -56,28 +56,28 @@ ENTRY(startup_xen)
* @entry: true if this is a secondary vcpu coming up on this entry
* point, false if this is the boot CPU being initialized for
* the first time (%rsi)
- *
- * Note: This is called as a function on the boot CPU, and is the entry point
- * on the secondary CPU.
*/
ENTRY(xen_pvh_early_cpu_init)
- mov %rsi, %r11
+ mov %rbx, -8(%rsp)

+/* Entry point for secondary CPUs */
+ENTRY(xen_pvh_early_cpu_init_secondary)
/* Gather features to see if NX implemented. */
mov $0x80000001, %eax
cpuid
- mov %edx, %esi
+ mov %edx, %ebx

mov $MSR_EFER, %ecx
rdmsr
bts $_EFER_SCE, %eax

- bt $20, %esi
+ bt $20, %ebx
jnc 1f /* No NX, skip setting it */
bts $_EFER_NX, %eax
1: wrmsr
+ mov -8(%rsp), %rbx
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- cmp $0, %r11b
+ cmp $0, %esi
jne cpu_bringup_and_idle
#endif
ret
--
1.8.1.4

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