The commit message needs a bit of work. On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:21:26AM +0530, Praveen Kumar wrote: > The root partition is not supposed to write to VP ASSIST PAGE as this MSR > is specific to Guest VP, and thus below stack is observed. > Yes, root kernel is supposed to write to this MSR, but that's not because this MSR is specific to children (guest) partitions. It is just that for root this is read-only. You should mention VP assist pages for root are pre-determined by the hypervisor. Root kernel is not allowed to change them to different locations. > [ 2.778197] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x40000073 (tried to write 0x0000000145ac5001) at rIP: 0xffffffff810c1084 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x30) > [ 2.784867] Call Trace: > [ 2.791507] hv_cpu_init+0xf1/0x1c0 > [ 2.798144] ? hyperv_report_panic+0xd0/0xd0 > [ 2.804806] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x11a/0x440 > [ 2.811465] ? hv_resume+0x90/0x90 > [ 2.818137] cpuhp_issue_call+0x126/0x130 > [ 2.824782] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x102/0x2b0 > [ 2.831427] ? hyperv_report_panic+0xd0/0xd0 > [ 2.838075] ? hyperv_report_panic+0xd0/0xd0 > [ 2.844723] ? hv_resume+0x90/0x90 > [ 2.851375] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x3d/0x90 > [ 2.858030] hyperv_init+0x14e/0x410 > [ 2.864689] ? enable_IR_x2apic+0x190/0x1a0 > [ 2.871349] apic_intr_mode_init+0x8b/0x100 > [ 2.878017] x86_late_time_init+0x20/0x30 > [ 2.884675] start_kernel+0x459/0x4fb > [ 2.891329] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb > > Root partition actually shares the VP ASSIST page with hypervisor, and So do children partitions. This page is by design shared between hypervisor and any partitions that use it. > thus as a solution, this patch memremaps the memory from hypervisor > during hv_cpu_init and unmaps during hv_cpu_die calls. > > Further, this patch also resolve some error handling and checkpatch > errors > > Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar <kumarpraveen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c > index 6f247e7e07eb..292b17e0b173 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c > +++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_vp_assist_page); > > static int hv_cpu_init(unsigned int cpu) > { > - struct hv_vp_assist_page **hvp = &hv_vp_assist_page[smp_processor_id()]; > + struct hv_vp_assist_page **hvp = NULL; > int ret; > > ret = hv_common_cpu_init(cpu); > @@ -54,25 +54,43 @@ static int hv_cpu_init(unsigned int cpu) > if (!hv_vp_assist_page) > return 0; > > + hvp = &hv_vp_assist_page[smp_processor_id()]; > + Why is this needed? Is it because of checkpatch? > /* > - * The VP ASSIST PAGE is an "overlay" page (see Hyper-V TLFS's Section > - * 5.2.1 "GPA Overlay Pages"). Here it must be zeroed out to make sure > - * we always write the EOI MSR in hv_apic_eoi_write() *after* the > - * EOI optimization is disabled in hv_cpu_die(), otherwise a CPU may > - * not be stopped in the case of CPU offlining and the VM will hang. > + * For Root partition we need to map the hypervisor VP ASSIST PAGE > + * instead of allocating a new page. > */ > - if (!*hvp) { > - *hvp = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); > - } This path suggests that it is possible to enter this function with *hvp already set. The new path for root is missing this check. > + if (hv_root_partition && > + ms_hyperv.features & HV_MSR_APIC_ACCESS_AVAILABLE) { Is HV_MSR_APIC_ACCESS_AVAILABLE a root only flag? Shouldn't non-root kernel check this too? Wei.