[tip:x86/mm] x86/xen/gdt: Use X86_FEATURE_XENPV instead of globals for the GDT fixup

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 05:22:57 EST


Commit-ID: b23adb7d3f7d1d7cce03db9704de67a99ceeda38
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b23adb7d3f7d1d7cce03db9704de67a99ceeda38
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:32:34 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:25:08 +0100

x86/xen/gdt: Use X86_FEATURE_XENPV instead of globals for the GDT fixup

Xen imposes special requirements on the GDT. Rather than using a
global variable for the pgprot, just use an explicit special case
for Xen -- this makes it clearer what's going on. It also debloats
64-bit kernels very slightly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9ea96abbfd6a8c87753849171bb5987ecfeb523.1490218061.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 1 -
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 3 ---
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
index 17cb46e..d0a21b1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ extern struct desc_ptr idt_descr;
extern gate_desc idt_table[];
extern const struct desc_ptr debug_idt_descr;
extern gate_desc debug_idt_table[];
-extern pgprot_t pg_fixmap_gdt_flags;

struct gdt_page {
struct desc_struct gdt[GDT_ENTRIES];
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index f6e20e2..8ee3211 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -448,21 +448,27 @@ void load_percpu_segment(int cpu)
load_stack_canary_segment();
}

-/*
- * On 64-bit the GDT remapping is read-only.
- * A global is used for Xen to change the default when required.
- */
+/* Setup the fixmap mapping only once per-processor */
+static inline void setup_fixmap_gdt(int cpu)
+{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-pgprot_t pg_fixmap_gdt_flags = PAGE_KERNEL_RO;
+ /* On 64-bit systems, we use a read-only fixmap GDT. */
+ pgprot_t prot = PAGE_KERNEL_RO;
#else
-pgprot_t pg_fixmap_gdt_flags = PAGE_KERNEL;
+ /*
+ * On native 32-bit systems, the GDT cannot be read-only because
+ * our double fault handler uses a task gate, and entering through
+ * a task gate needs to change an available TSS to busy. If the GDT
+ * is read-only, that will triple fault.
+ *
+ * On Xen PV, the GDT must be read-only because the hypervisor requires
+ * it.
+ */
+ pgprot_t prot = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) ?
+ PAGE_KERNEL_RO : PAGE_KERNEL;
#endif

-/* Setup the fixmap mapping only once per-processor */
-static inline void setup_fixmap_gdt(int cpu)
-{
- __set_fixmap(get_cpu_gdt_ro_index(cpu), get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu),
- pg_fixmap_gdt_flags);
+ __set_fixmap(get_cpu_gdt_ro_index(cpu), get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu), prot);
}

/* Load the original GDT from the per-cpu structure */
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index 08faa61..4951fcf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1545,9 +1545,6 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
*/
xen_initial_gdt = &per_cpu(gdt_page, 0);

- /* GDT can only be remapped RO */
- pg_fixmap_gdt_flags = PAGE_KERNEL_RO;
-
xen_smp_init();

#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA