On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:47:24AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The processor is documented to reload the PDPTRs while in PAE mode if any
> of the CR4 bits PSE, PGE, or PAE change. Linux relies on this
> behaviour when zapping the low mappings of PAE kernels during boot.
>
> The code already handled changes to CR4.PAE; augment it to also notice changes
> to PSE and PGE.
>
> This triggered while booting an F11 PAE kernel; the futex initialization code
> runs before any CR3 reloads and writes to a NULL pointer; the futex subsystem
> ended up uninitialized, killing PI futexes and pulseaudio which uses them.
One comment regarding set_cr0. Section 8.1 of the TLB doc says:
* The processor does not maintain a PDP cache as described in
Section 4. The processor always caches information from the four
page-directory-pointer-table entries. These entries are not cached at
the time of address translation. Instead, they are always cached as part
of the execution of the following instructions:
* A MOV to CR0 that modifies CR0.PG and that occurs with IA32_EFER.LMA = 0
and CR4.PAE = 1.
However kvm_set_cr0 only caches the PDPTRs if CR0.PG changed from 0->1.
Can't see a problem there though.
Also, the checks in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs should probably be unified
with kvm_set_crX, to avoid future mistakes.
Otherwise, ACK.
>
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 8b5d1e5..6d44dd5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_lmsw);
>
> void kvm_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr4)
> {
> + unsigned long old_cr4 = vcpu->arch.cr4;
> + unsigned long pdptr_bits = X86_CR4_PGE | X86_CR4_PSE | X86_CR4_PAE;
> +
> if (cr4 & CR4_RESERVED_BITS) {
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "set_cr4: #GP, reserved bits\n");
> kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
> @@ -354,7 +357,8 @@ void kvm_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr4)
> kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
> return;
> }
> - } else if (is_paging(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu) && (cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE)
> + } else if (is_paging(vcpu) && (cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE)
> + && ((cr4 ^ old_cr4) & pdptr_bits)
> && !load_pdptrs(vcpu, vcpu->arch.cr3)) {
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "set_cr4: #GP, pdptrs reserved bits\n");
> kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
> --
> 1.6.0.6
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