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From: tip-bot for Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: [tip:x86/cpu] x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:19:15 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-5367b6887e7d8c870a5da7d9b8c6e9c207684e43@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252547631.3423.134.camel@localhost>

Commit-ID:  5367b6887e7d8c870a5da7d9b8c6e9c207684e43
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/5367b6887e7d8c870a5da7d9b8c6e9c207684e43
Author:     Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
AuthorDate: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:53:50 +0100
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:50:19 -0700

x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486

As reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/511703> and
<http://bugs.debian.org/515982>, kernels with paravirt-alternatives
enabled crash in text_poke_early() on at least some 486-class
processors.

The problem is that text_poke_early() itself uses inline functions
affected by paravirt-alternatives and so will modify instructions that
have already been prefetched.  Pentium and later processors will
invalidate the prefetched instructions in this case, but 486-class
processors do not.

Change sync_core() to limit prefetching on 486-class (and 386-class)
processors, and move the call to sync_core() above the call to the
modifiable local_irq_restore().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1252547631.3423.134.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>


---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |   16 +++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c    |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index c776826..2db56c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -703,13 +703,23 @@ static inline void cpu_relax(void)
 	rep_nop();
 }
 
-/* Stop speculative execution: */
+/* Stop speculative execution and prefetching of modified code. */
 static inline void sync_core(void)
 {
 	int tmp;
 
-	asm volatile("cpuid" : "=a" (tmp) : "0" (1)
-		     : "ebx", "ecx", "edx", "memory");
+#if defined(CONFIG_M386) || defined(CONFIG_M486)
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 5)
+		/* There is no speculative execution.
+		 * jmp is a barrier to prefetching. */
+		asm volatile("jmp 1f\n1:\n" ::: "memory");
+	else
+#endif
+		/* cpuid is a barrier to speculative execution.
+		 * Prefetched instructions are automatically
+		 * invalidated when modified. */
+		asm volatile("cpuid" : "=a" (tmp) : "0" (1)
+			     : "ebx", "ecx", "edx", "memory");
 }
 
 static inline void __monitor(const void *eax, unsigned long ecx,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index f576587..b8ebd0b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -490,8 +490,8 @@ void *text_poke_early(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	sync_core();
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	/* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
 	   that causes hangs on some VIA CPUs. */
 	return addr;

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  0:19 UTC|newest]

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2009-09-10  1:53 [PATCH v2] " Ben Hutchings
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