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    [PATCH] x86: introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT · f2f30ebc
    Zachary Amsden authored
    Introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT.  This is required
    for hypervisors like Xen that do not allow LDT pages to be directly
    written.
    
    Testing - here's a fun little LDT test that can be trivially modified to
    test limits as well.
    
    /*
     * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com)
     * This is licensed under the GPL.
     */
    
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <signal.h>
    #include <asm/ldt.h>
    #include <asm/segment.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <sys/mman.h>
    #define __KERNEL__
    #include <asm/page.h>
    
    void main(void)
    {
            struct user_desc desc;
            char *code;
            unsigned long long tsc;
    
            code = (char *)mmap(0, 8192, PROT_EXEC|PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                     MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
            desc.entry_number = 0;
            desc.base_addr = code;
            desc.limit = 1;
            desc.seg_32bit = 1;
            desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
            desc.read_exec_only = 0;
            desc.limit_in_pages = 1;
            desc.seg_not_present = 0;
            desc.useable = 1;
            if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
                    perror("modify_ldt");
            }
            printf("code base is 0x%08x\n", (unsigned)code);
            code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f;  /* rdtsc */
            code[0x0fff] = 0x31;
            code[0x1000] = 0xcb;  /* lret */
            __asm__ __volatile("lcall $7,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc));
            printf("TSC is 0x%016llx\n", tsc);
    }
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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