Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] x86 Test and expose CPUID faulting capabilities in /proc/cpuinfo

[Kyle Huey]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On 15.09.16 at 12:05, <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 14/09/16 22:01, Kyle Huey wrote:
>>>>> Xen advertises the underlying support for CPUID faulting but not does pass
>>>>> through writes to the relevant MSR, nor does it virtualize it, so it does
>>>>> not actually work. For now mask off the relevant bit on MSR_PLATFORM_INFO.
>>>>
>>>> Could you clarify in the commit message that it is PV guests that are
>>>> affected.
>>>
>>> What makes you think HVM ones aren't?
>>
>> Testing on EC2, HVM guests are affected as well.  Not sure what to do
>> about that.
>>
>
> It's kind of nasty, but it shouldn't be *too* hard to probe for this
> thing during early boot.  Allocate a page somewhere that has the user
> bit set, put something like this in it:
>
> cpuid
> inc %eax  /* return 1 */
> movw %ax, %ss /* force %GP to get out of here */
>
> Call it like this from asm (real asm, not inline):
>
> FRAME_BEGIN
> pushq %rbx
>
> xorl %eax, %eax
>
> /* Push return frame */
> pushq %ss
> pushq %rsp
> addq $8, (%rsp)
> pushfq
> pushq %cs
> pushq $end_of_cpuid_faulting_test
>
> /* Call it! */
> pushq $__USER_DS
> pushq $0
> pushq $X86_EFLAGS_FIXED  /* leave IF off when running the CPL3 stub */
> pushq $__USER_CS
> pushq [address of userspace stub]
> INTERRUPT_RETURN
>
> end_of_cpuid_faulting_test:
> pop %rbx
>
> FRAME_END
>
> Run this after the main GDT is loaded but while the #GP vector is
> temporarily pointing to:
>
> movq SS-RIP(%rsp), %rsp  /* pop the real return frame */
> INTERRUPT_RETURN
>
> and with interrupts off.  The function should return 0 if CPUID
> faulting works and 1 if it doesn't.
>
> Yeah, this is gross, but it should work.  I'm not sure how okay I am
> with putting this crap in the kernel...

This is rather heroic :)

I think it's more trouble than it's worth though.  The latest series I
submitted doesn't try to handle this.  Instead I'll patch Xen to fix
the bug.

- Kyle