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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>2011-08-03 09:31:53 -0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2011-08-04 16:13:49 -0700
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x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3 selector is __USER_CS. This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq changes cs to the magic value 0xe033. Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling" (c9712944b2a12373cb6ff8059afcfb7e826a6c54), vsyscalls will segfault if called with Xen's extra CS selector. This causes a panic when older init builds die. It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the tests instead with a new paravirt op. It's a little ugly because ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
index 869e1aeeb71b..681f15994218 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -299,6 +299,10 @@ struct pv_info pv_info = {
.paravirt_enabled = 0,
.kernel_rpl = 0,
.shared_kernel_pmd = 1, /* Only used when CONFIG_X86_PAE is set */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ .extra_user_64bit_cs = __USER_CS,
+#endif
};
struct pv_init_ops pv_init_ops = {
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