x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
Three places in the kernel assume that the only long mode CPL 3 selector is __USER_CS. This is not true on Xen -- Xen's sysretq changes cs to the magic value 0xe033. Two of the places are corner cases, but as of "x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling" (c9712944), vsyscalls will segfault if called with Xen's extra CS selector. This causes a panic when older init builds die. It seems impossible to make Xen use __USER_CS reliably without taking a performance hit on every system call, so this fixes the tests instead with a new paravirt op. It's a little ugly because ptrace.h can't include paravirt.h. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4fcb3947340d9e96ce1054a432f183f9da9db83.1312378163.git.luto@mit.eduReported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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