On 10/06/2017 10:32 AM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>> #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT >>> +/* >>> + * Paravirt alternatives are applied much earlier than normal alternatives. >>> + * They are only applied when running on a hypervisor. They replace some >>> + * native instructions with calls to pv ops. >>> + */ >>> +void __init apply_pv_alternatives(void) >>> +{ >>> + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PV_OPS); >> Not for Xen HVM guests. > From what I can tell, HVM guests still use pv_time_ops and > pv_mmu_ops.exit_mmap, right? > >>> + apply_alternatives(__pv_alt_instructions, __pv_alt_instructions_end); >>> +} >> >> This is a problem (at least for Xen PV guests): >> apply_alternatives()->text_poke_early()->local_irq_save()->...'cli'->death. > Ah, right. > >> It might be possible not to turn off/on the interrupts in this >> particular case since the guest probably won't be able to handle an >> interrupt at this point anyway. > Yeah, that should work. For Xen and for the other hypervisors, this is > called well before irq init, so interrupts can't be handled yet anyway. There is also another problem: [ 1.312425] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 1.312901] Modules linked in: [ 1.313389] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.14.0-rc4+ #6 [ 1.313878] task: ffff88003e2c0000 task.stack: ffffc9000038c000 [ 1.314360] RIP: 10000e030:entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1/0xa5 [ 1.314854] RSP: e02b:ffffc9000038ff50 EFLAGS: 00010046 [ 1.315336] RAX: 000000000000000c RBX: 000055f550168040 RCX: 00007fcfc959f59a [ 1.315827] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 1.316315] RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 000000000000037f R09: 0000000000000064 [ 1.316805] R10: 000000001f89cbf5 R11: ffff88003e2c0000 R12: 00007fcfc958ad60 [ 1.317300] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000055f550185954 R15: 0000000000001000 [ 1.317801] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003f800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1.318267] CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1.318750] CR2: 00007fcfc97ab218 CR3: 000000003c88e000 CR4: 0000000000042660 [ 1.319235] Call Trace: [ 1.319700] Code: 51 50 57 56 52 51 6a da 41 50 41 51 41 52 41 53 48 83 ec 30 65 4c 8b 1c 25 c0 d2 00 00 41 f7 03 df 39 08 90 0f 85 a5 00 00 00 50 <ff> 15 9c 95 d0 ff 58 48 3d 4c 01 00 00 77 0f 4c 89 d1 ff 14 c5 [ 1.321161] RIP: entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1/0xa5 RSP: ffffc9000038ff50 [ 1.344255] ---[ end trace d7cb8cd6cd7c294c ]--- [ 1.345009] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b All code ======== 0: 51 push %rcx 1: 50 push %rax 2: 57 push %rdi 3: 56 push %rsi 4: 52 push %rdx 5: 51 push %rcx 6: 6a da pushq $0xffffffffffffffda 8: 41 50 push %r8 a: 41 51 push %r9 c: 41 52 push %r10 e: 41 53 push %r11 10: 48 83 ec 30 sub $0x30,%rsp 14: 65 4c 8b 1c 25 c0 d2 mov %gs:0xd2c0,%r11 1b: 00 00 1d: 41 f7 03 df 39 08 90 testl $0x900839df,(%r11) 24: 0f 85 a5 00 00 00 jne 0xcf 2a: 50 push %rax 2b:* ff 15 9c 95 d0 ff callq *-0x2f6a64(%rip) # 0xffffffffffd095cd <-- trapping instruction 31: 58 pop %rax 32: 48 3d 4c 01 00 00 cmp $0x14c,%rax 38: 77 0f ja 0x49 3a: 4c 89 d1 mov %r10,%rcx 3d: ff .byte 0xff 3e: 14 c5 adc $0xc5,%al so the original 'cli' was replaced with the pv call but to me the offset looks a bit off, no? Shouldn't it always be positive? -boris _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization