Pavel noted that lguest maps the switcher code executable and
read-write. This is a bad idea for any kernel text, but
particularly for text mapped at a fixed address.
Create two vmas, one for the text (PAGE_KERNEL_RX) and another
for the stacks (PAGE_KERNEL). Use VM_NO_GUARD to map them
adjacent (as expected by the rest of the code).
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The last patch reduced our interrupt-suppression region to one address,
so simplify the code somewhat.
Also, remove the obsolete undefined instruction ranges and the comment
which refers to lguest_guest.S instead of head_32.S.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Now we've adjusted all the code, we can simply set switcher_addr to
wherever it needs to go below the fixmaps, rather than asserting that
it should be so.
With large NR_CPUS and PAE, people were hitting the "mapping switcher
would thwack fixmap" message.
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
ie. SHARED_SWITCHER_PAGES == 1. It is well under a page, and it's a
minor simplification: it's nice to have *one* simplification in a
patch series!
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We currently use the whole top PGD entry for the switcher, but that's
hitting the fixmap in some configurations (mainly, large NR_CPUS).
Introduce a variable, currently set to the constant.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
GDT_ENTRY_INIT is static initializer of desc_struct.
We already have similar macro GDT_ENTRY() but it's static
initializer for u64 and it cannot be used for desc_struct.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090718151219.GD11294@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I don't really notice it (except to begrudge the extra vertical
space), but Ingo does. And he pointed out that one excuse of lguest
is as a teaching tool, it should set a good example.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status.
NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: Reduce future system panics due to cpumask operations using NR_CPUS
Insure that code does not look at bits >= nr_cpu_ids as when cpumasks are
allocated based on nr_cpu_ids, these extra bits will not be defined.
Also some other minor updates:
* change in to use cpu accessor function set_cpu_present() instead of
directly accessing cpu_present_map w/cpu_clear() [arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c]
* use cpumask_of() instead of &cpumask_of_cpu() [arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c]
* optimize some cpu_mask_to_apicid_and functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>