x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:17:48 +0000 (13:17 +0200)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:07:57 +0000 (14:07 +0200)
commitc1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343
tree57dce6397f2dbf19701fa1a7671abcde453e170b
parent81760dccf8d1fe5b128b58736fe3f56a566133cb
x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only

On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
as required on AMD processors.

The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
is a KVM bug that has to be fixed.  However, picking the right instruction
between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
the hypervisor.

Reported-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Tested-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c