- 26 Sep, 2006 40 commits
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Rusty Russell authored
We allow for the fact that the guest kernel may not run in ring 0. This requires some abstraction in a few places when setting %cs or checking privilege level (user vs kernel). This is Chris' [RFC PATCH 15/33] move segment checks to subarch, except rather than using #define USER_MODE_MASK which depends on a config option, we use Zach's more flexible approach of assuming ring 3 == userspace. I also used "get_kernel_rpl()" over "get_kernel_cs()" because I think it reads better in the code... 1) Remove the hardcoded 3 and introduce #define SEGMENT_RPL_MASK 3 2) Add a get_kernel_rpl() macro, and don't assume it's zero. And: Clean up of patch for letting kernel run other than ring 0: a. Add some comments about the SEGMENT_IS_*_CODE() macros. b. Add a USER_RPL macro. (Code was comparing a value to a mask in some places and to the magic number 3 in other places.) c. Add macros for table indicator field and use them. d. Change the entry.S tests for LDT stack segment to use the macros Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Rusty Russell authored
Abstract sensitive instructions in assembler code, replacing them with macros (which currently are #defined to the native versions). We use long names: assembler is case-insensitive, so if something goes wrong and macros do not expand, it would assemble anyway. Resulting object files are exactly the same as before. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Fix linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c: In function __switch_to: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c:626: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast Signed-off-by: -
Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
I just added type checking for assignments the PDA in the i386 PDA code. Here's the x86-64 equivalent. (Obviously this doesn't contain the latest x86-64 PDA change.) Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Apparently that is the more official way to get numbers without $ in inline assembly Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Add a feature check that checks that the gcc compiler has stack-protector support and has the bugfix for PR28281 to make this work in kernel mode. The easiest solution I could find was to have a shell script in scripts/ to do the detection; if needed we can make this fancier in the future without making the makefile too complex. Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
GCC emits a call to a __stack_chk_fail() function when the stack canary is not matching the expected value. Since this is a bad security issue; lets panic the kernel rather than limping along; the kernel really can't be trusted anymore when this happens. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch adds the config options for -fstack-protector. Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Change the comments in the pda structure to make the first fields to have their offset documented and to have the comments aligned. The stack protector series needs a field at offset 40 (gcc ABI); annotate upto 40 for that reason. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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Andi Kleen authored
Because it can take spinlocks. Suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Signed-off-by: -
Magnus Damm authored
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, i386) This patch upgrades the i386-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel. The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd. Signed-off-by:
Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Magnus Damm authored
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64) This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel. The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd. Signed-off-by:
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Keith Owens authored
Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack. This is a follow on clean up patch, it requires the bug fix patch that adds orig_ist. Signed-off-by:
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
The EDD code would scan the command line as a fixed array, without taking account of either whitespace, null-termination, the old command-line protocol, late overrides early, or the fact that the command line may not be reachable from INITSEG. This should fix those problems, and enable us to use a longer command line. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge: Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for read/write accesses. Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to make sure no PDA access is moved before it. Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better code for accessing "current"): text data bss dec hex filename 4845647 1223688 615864 6685199 66020f vmlinux 4837780 1223688 615864 6677332 65e354 vmlinux-pda 1.2% smaller code Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
They cannot be actually freed because the FACS table has a shared-with-the-BIOS lock. Signed-off-by: -
Ian Campbell authored
This patch updates x86_64 linker script to pack any .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment in the output file. To do this, we tell ld that we need a PT_NOTE segment. This requires us to start explicitly mapping sections to segments, so we also need to explicitly create PT_LOAD segments for text and data, and map the sections to them appropriately. Fortunately, each section will default to its previous section's segment, so it doesn't take many changes to vmlinux.lds.S. The corresponding change is already made for i386 in -mm and I'd like this patch to join it. The section to segment mappings do change as do the segment flags so some time in -mm would be good for that reason as well, just in case. In particular .data and .bss move from the text segment to the data segment and .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly are put in the data segment instead of a separate one. I think that it would be possible to exactly match the existing section to segment mapping and flags but it would be a more intrusive change and I'm not sure there is a reason for the existing layout other than it is what you get by default if you don't explicitly specify something else. If there is a reason for the existing layout then I will of course make the more intrusive change. If there is no reason we could probably drop the executable or writable flags from some segments but I don't know how much attention is paid to them anyway so it might not be worth the effort. The vsyscall related sections need to go in a different segment to the normal data segment and so I invented a "user" segment to contain them. I believe this should appear to be another data segment as far as the kernel is concerned so the flags are setup accordingly. The notes will be used in the Xen paravirt_ops backend to provide additional information to the domain builder. I am in the process of converting the xen-unstable kernels and tools over to this scheme at the moment to support this in the future. It has been suggested to me that the notes segment should have flags 0 (i.e. not readable) since it is only used by the loader and is not used at runtime. For now I went with a readable segment since that is what the i386 patch uses. AK: dropped NOTES addition right now because the needed infrastructure for that is not merged yet Signed-off-by:
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric W. Biederman authored
In long mode the %cs is largely a relic. However there are a few cases like iret where it matters that we have a valid value. Without this patch it is possible to enter the kernel in startup_64 without setting %cs to a valid value. With this patch we don't care what %cs value we enter the kernel with, so long as the cs shadow register indicates it is a privileged code segment. Thanks to Magnus Damm for finding this problem and posting the first workable patch. I have moved the jump to set %cs down a few instructions so we don't need to take an extra jump. Which keeps the code simpler. Signed-of-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Based on patch from David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, but changed by AK. Optimizes the 64-bit hamming weight for x86_64 processors assuming they have fast multiplication. Uses five fewer bitops than the generic hweight64. Benchmark on one EMT64 showed ~25% speedup with 2^24 consecutive calls. Define a new ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER that can be set by other architectures that can also multiply fast. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Drop support for non e820 BIOS calls to get the memory map. The boot assembler code still has some support, but not the C code now. Signed-off-by: -
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
When compiling a 64-bit kernel on an Ubuntu 6.06 32bit system (whose GCC is also a cross-compiler for x86_64) I've seen that head.o is compiled as a 64-bit file (while it should not) and ld complaining about this during linking: [AK: it happens on all systems with new binutils] ld: warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file `arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o' is incompatible with i386 output I've verified that removing -m64 from compilation flags to turn "-m64 -traditional -m32" into "-traditional -m32" fixes the issue. Signed-off-by:
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
NMIs are not supposed to track the irq flags, but TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ did it anyways. Add a check. Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Give the printks a consistent prefix. Add some missing white space. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
- Remove a define that was used only once - Remove the too large APIC ID check because we always support the full 8bit range of APICs. - Restructure code a bit to be simpler. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
ACPI went to great trouble to get the APIC version and CPU capabilities of different CPUs before passing them to the mpparser. But all that data was used was to print it out. Actually it even faked some data based on the boot cpu, not on the actual CPU being booted. Remove all this code because it's not needed. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Use normal pte accessors in change_page_attr() to access the PSE bits. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Fix the pte_exec/mkexec page table accessor functions to really use the NX bit. Previously they only checked the USER bit, but weren't actually used for anything. Then use them in change_page_attr() to manipulate the NX bit properly. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
It is correct for its only caller right now, but not for possible future others. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
And replace all users with ordinary smp_processor_id. The function was originally added to get some basic oops information out even if the GS register was corrupted. However that didn't work for some anymore because printk is needed to print the oops and it uses smp_processor_id() already. Also GS register corruptions are not particularly common anymore. This also helps the Xen port which would otherwise need to do this in a special way because it can't access the local APIC. Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: -
Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Detect the situations in which the time after a resume from disk would be earlier than the time before the suspend and prevent them from happening on x86_64. Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Ebbert authored
In i386's entry.S, FIX_STACK() needs annotation because it replaces the stack pointer. And the rest of nmi() needs annotation in order to compile with these new annotations. Signed-off-by:
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
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Andi Kleen authored
Apparently IA64 needs it, but i386/x86-64 don't anymore since gcc 2.95 support was dropped. Nobody else on linux-arch requested keeping it generically Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: kaos@sgi.com Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
From i386 x86-64 inherited code to force reserve the 640k-1MB area. That was needed on some old systems. But we generally trust the e820 map to be correct on 64bit systems and mark all areas that are not memory correctly. This patch will allow to use the real memory in there. Or rather the only way to find out if it's still needed is to try. So far I'm optimistic. Signed-off-by: -
Dave Jones authored
This is now automatically included by kbuild. Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao authored
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack corruption. Note: This problem was originally spotted and solved by Andi Kleen in the x86_64 architecture. This patch is an adaption of his patch for i386. AK: Merged with current code which was a bit different. AK: Removed printk in nmi handler that shouldn't be there in the first time AK: Added missing include. AK: added KPROBES_END Signed-off-by:
Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao authored
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack corruption. Note: This problem was originally spotted by Andi Kleen. This patch adds fixes not included in his original patch. [AK: Jan Beulich originally discovered these classes of bugs] Signed-off-by:
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