This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests.
Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor
may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor
may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear
address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A for details.
For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running
natively.
For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The x86_64 kernel pushes the fake kernel stack in
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:FAKE_STACK_FRAME, and
rflags register in it does not conform to the specification.
Although Intel's manual[1] says bit 1 of it shall be set to 1,
this bit is cleared to 0 on pushing the fake stack.
[1] Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
Vol.1 3-21 Figure 3-8. EFLAGS Register
If it is not on purpose, it is better to be fixed, because
it can lead some tools misunderstanding the stack frame. For example,
"crash" utility[2] actually detects it and warns you like
below:
RIP: ffffffff8005dfa2 RSP: ffff8104ce0c7f58 RFLAGS: 00000200
[...]
bt: WARNING: possibly bogus exception frame
Signed-off-by: Seiichi Ikarashi <s.ikarashi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add support for newly documented SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection)
CPU feature in CR4.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1305683069-25394-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
