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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2016-04-01 03:45:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-04-01 08:58:13 +0200 |
| commit | f87e0434a3bedeb5e4d75d96d9f3ad424dae6b33 (patch) | |
| tree | aa18b1303e0082c527e5fad3b4d43631cd0d4fb1 /drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c | |
| parent | x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE (diff) | |
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lguest, x86/entry/32: Fix handling of guest syscalls using interrupt gates
In a798f091113e ("x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate")
Andy broke lguest. This is because lguest had special code to allow
the 0x80 trap gate go straight into the guest itself; interrupts gates
(without more work, as mentioned in the file's comments) bounce via
the hypervisor.
His change made them go via the hypervisor, but as it's in the range of
normal hardware interrupts, they were not directed through to the guest
at all. Turns out the guest userspace isn't very effective if syscalls
are all noops.
I haven't ripped out all the now-useless trap-direct-to-guest-kernel
code yet, since it will still be needed if someone decides to update
this optimization.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: x86\@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87fuv685kl.fsf@rustcorp.com.au
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c b/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c index eb934b0242e0..67392b6ab845 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ void set_interrupt(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned int irq) * Actually now I think of it, it's possible that Ron *is* half the Plan 9 * userbase. Oh well. */ -static bool could_be_syscall(unsigned int num) +bool could_be_syscall(unsigned int num) { /* Normal Linux IA32_SYSCALL_VECTOR or reserved vector? */ return num == IA32_SYSCALL_VECTOR || num == syscall_vector; @@ -416,6 +416,10 @@ bool deliver_trap(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned int num) * * This routine indicates if a particular trap number could be delivered * directly. + * + * Unfortunately, Linux 4.6 started using an interrupt gate instead of a + * trap gate for syscalls, so this trick is ineffective. See Mastery for + * how we could do this anyway... */ static bool direct_trap(unsigned int num) { |