With commit 8170e6bed4 ("x86, 64bit: Use a #PF handler to materialize
early mappings on demand") we started hitting an early bootup crash
where the Xen hypervisor would inform us that:
(XEN) d7:v0: unhandled page fault (ec=0000)
(XEN) Pagetable walk from ffffea000005b2d0:
(XEN) L4[0x1d4] = 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
(XEN) Domain 7 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#3:
(XEN) ----[ Xen-4.2.0 x86_64 debug=n Not tainted ]----
.. that Xen was unable to context switch back to dom0.
Looking at the calling stack we find:
[<ffffffff8103feba>] xen_get_user_pgd+0x5a <--
[<ffffffff8103feba>] xen_get_user_pgd+0x5a
[<ffffffff81042d27>] xen_write_cr3+0x77
[<ffffffff81ad2d21>] init_mem_mapping+0x1f9
[<ffffffff81ac293f>] setup_arch+0x742
[<ffffffff81666d71>] printk+0x48
We are trying to figure out whether we need to up-date the user PGD as
well. Please keep in mind that under 64-bit PV guests we have a limited
amount of rings: 0 for the Hypervisor, and 1 for both the Linux kernel
and user-space. As such the Linux pvops'fied version of write_cr3
checks if it has to update the user-space cr3 as well.
That clearly is not needed during early bootup. The recent changes (see
above git commit) streamline the x86 page table allocation to be much
simpler (And also incidentally the #PF handler ends up in spirit being
similar to how the Xen toolstack sets up the initial page-tables).
The fix is to have an early-bootup version of cr3 that just loads the
kernel %cr3. The later version - which also handles user-page
modifications will be used after the initial page tables have been
setup.
[ hpa: removed a redundant #ifdef and made the new function __init.
Also note that x86-32 already has such an early xen_write_cr3. ]
Tested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361579812-23709-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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