From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] use __pa_symbol to calculate the address of a C symbol.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:04:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251702271-4797-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> (raw)
The use of __pa() to calculate the address of a C-visible symbol
is wrong, and can lead to unpredictable results. See arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
for details.
It should be replaced with __pa_symbol(), that does the correct math here,
by taking relocations into account.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index 223af43..e5efcdc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ static unsigned long kvm_get_wallclock(void)
struct timespec ts;
int low, high;
- low = (int)__pa(&wall_clock);
- high = ((u64)__pa(&wall_clock) >> 32);
+ low = (int)__pa_symbol(&wall_clock);
+ high = ((u64)__pa_symbol(&wall_clock) >> 32);
native_write_msr(MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK, low, high);
vcpu_time = &get_cpu_var(hv_clock);
--
1.6.2.2
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2009-08-31 7:04 Glauber Costa [this message]
2009-08-31 11:24 ` Avi Kivity
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