Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, hyperv: fix kernel panic when kexec on HyperV VM

[Kairui Song]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 8:02 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:56:15PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> >  arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
> > index 7abb09e2eeb8..92291c18d716 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
> > @@ -406,6 +406,10 @@ void hyperv_cleanup(void)
> >       /* Reset our OS id */
> >       wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, 0);
> >
> > +     /* Cleanup page reference before reset the page */
> > +     hv_hypercall_pg = NULL;
> > +     wmb();
>
> What do we need that SFENCE for? Any why does it lack a comment?

Hi, that's for ensuring the hv_hypercall_pg is reset to NULL before
the following wrmsr call. The wrmsr call will make the pointer address
invalid.
I can add some comment in V2 if this is OK.


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Best Regards,
Kairui Song