mainlining shenanigans
009bce1df0
Choo! Choo! All aboard the Split Lock Express, with direct service to
Wreckage!
Skip split_lock_verify_msr() if the CPU isn't whitelisted as a possible
SLD-enabled CPU model to avoid writing MSR_TEST_CTRL. MSR_TEST_CTRL
exists, and is writable, on many generations of CPUs. Writing the MSR,
even with '0', can result in bizarre, undocumented behavior.
This fixes a crash on Haswell when resuming from suspend with a live KVM
guest. Because APs use the standard SMP boot flow for resume, they will
go through split_lock_init() and the subsequent RDMSR/WRMSR sequence,
which runs even when sld_state==sld_off to ensure SLD is disabled. On
Haswell (at least, my Haswell), writing MSR_TEST_CTRL with '0' will
succeed and _may_ take the SMT _sibling_ out of VMX root mode.
When KVM has an active guest, KVM performs VMXON as part of CPU onlining
(see kvm_starting_cpu()). Because SMP boot is serialized, the resulting
flow is effectively:
on_each_ap_cpu() {
WRMSR(MSR_TEST_CTRL, 0)
VMXON
}
As a result, the WRMSR can disable VMX on a different CPU that has
already done VMXON. This ultimately results in a #UD on VMPTRLD when
KVM regains control and attempt run its vCPUs.
The above voodoo was confirmed by reworking KVM's VMXON flow to write
MSR_TEST_CTRL prior to VMXON, and to serialize the sequence as above.
Further verification of the insanity was done by redoing VMXON on all
APs after the initial WRMSR->VMXON sequence. The additional VMXON,
which should VM-Fail, occasionally succeeded, and also eliminated the
unexpected #UD on VMPTRLD.
The damage done by writing MSR_TEST_CTRL doesn't appear to be limited
to VMX, e.g. after suspend with an active KVM guest, subsequent reboots
almost always hang (even when fudging VMXON), a #UD on a random Jcc was
observed, suspend/resume stability is qualitatively poor, and so on and
so forth.
kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:386!
CPU: 1 PID: 2592 Comm: CPU 6/KVM Tainted: G D
Hardware name: ASUS Q87M-E/Q87M-E, BIOS 1102 03/03/2014
RIP: 0010:kvm_spurious_fault+0xf/0x20
Call Trace:
vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs+0x1fb/0x2b0
vmx_vcpu_load+0x3e/0x160
kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x48/0x260
finish_task_switch+0x140/0x260
__schedule+0x460/0x720
_cond_resched+0x2d/0x40
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x82e/0x1ca0
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x363/0x5c0
ksys_ioctl+0x88/0xa0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Fixes:
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| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.