On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 08/25/2017 05:47 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > -/* Set of traps needed for early debugging. */
> > -void __init early_trap_init(void)
> > -{
> > - /*
> > - * Don't use IST to set DEBUG_STACK as it doesn't work until TSS
> > - * is ready in cpu_init() <-- trap_init(). Before trap_init(),
> > - * CPU runs at ring 0 so it is impossible to hit an invalid
> > - * stack. Using the original stack works well enough at this
> > - * early stage. DEBUG_STACK will be equipped after cpu_init() in
> > - * trap_init().
> > - */
> > - set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_DB, debug);
> > - /* int3 can be called from all */
> > - set_system_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_BP, &int3);
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > - set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_PF, page_fault);
> > -#endif
> > - load_idt(&idt_descr);
>
> This breaks 64-bit Xen PV guests: idt_setup_early_handler() is called
> from x86_64_start_kernel(), which is not executed on those guests.
early_trap_init() is called from setup_arch(), not from
x86_64_start_kernel().
This patch merily renames the function and moves the code into a different
source file. So it's not changing the behaviour in any way.
> The patch below fixes it.
I doubt that :)
Thanks,
tglx
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
> index 03fb07d..ed0fb8a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
> @@ -1374,6 +1374,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init
> xen_start_kernel(void)
> i386_start_kernel();
> #else
> cr4_init_shadow(); /* 32b kernel does this in i386_start_kernel() */
> + load_idt(&idt_descr);
> x86_64_start_reservations((char *)__pa_symbol(&boot_params));
> #endif
> }
