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authorEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>2008-07-08 15:07:10 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-16 11:04:55 +0200
commit8a95408e183b3e4aaf3b6a66fa34bff4db53011b (patch)
treeaf3d69d791d65fe324d4883fbe6a2e3d5f065fd0 /arch/x86
parent4a5c3e77f70b3ea8b361d7fa9eb2e4dad18f70ae (diff)
xen64: Clear %fs on xen_load_tls()
We need to do this, otherwise we can get a GPF on hypercall return after TLS descriptor is cleared but %fs is still pointing to it. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c31
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index 0172ba77452..c13698faae5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -364,14 +364,6 @@ static void load_TLS_descriptor(struct thread_struct *t,
static void xen_load_tls(struct thread_struct *t, unsigned int cpu)
{
- xen_mc_batch();
-
- load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 0);
- load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 1);
- load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 2);
-
- xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU);
-
/*
* XXX sleazy hack: If we're being called in a lazy-cpu zone,
* it means we're in a context switch, and %gs has just been
@@ -380,9 +372,30 @@ static void xen_load_tls(struct thread_struct *t, unsigned int cpu)
* Either way, it has been saved, and the new value will get
* loaded properly. This will go away as soon as Xen has been
* modified to not save/restore %gs for normal hypercalls.
+ *
+ * On x86_64, this hack is not used for %gs, because gs points
+ * to KERNEL_GS_BASE (and uses it for PDA references), so we
+ * must not zero %gs on x86_64
+ *
+ * For x86_64, we need to zero %fs, otherwise we may get an
+ * exception between the new %fs descriptor being loaded and
+ * %fs being effectively cleared at __switch_to().
*/
- if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU)
+ if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
loadsegment(gs, 0);
+#else
+ loadsegment(fs, 0);
+#endif
+ }
+
+ xen_mc_batch();
+
+ load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 0);
+ load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 1);
+ load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 2);
+
+ xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64