linux/drivers/xen
Olaf Hering 00e37bdb01 xen PVonHVM: move shared_info to MMIO before kexec
Currently kexec in a PVonHVM guest fails with a triple fault because the
new kernel overwrites the shared info page. The exact failure depends on
the size of the kernel image. This patch moves the pfn from RAM into
MMIO space before the kexec boot.

The pfn containing the shared_info is located somewhere in RAM. This
will cause trouble if the current kernel is doing a kexec boot into a
new kernel. The new kernel (and its startup code) can not know where the
pfn is, so it can not reserve the page. The hypervisor will continue to
update the pfn, and as a result memory corruption occours in the new
kernel.

One way to work around this issue is to allocate a page in the
xen-platform pci device's BAR memory range. But pci init is done very
late and the shared_info page is already in use very early to read the
pvclock. So moving the pfn from RAM to MMIO is racy because some code
paths on other vcpus could access the pfn during the small   window when
the old pfn is moved to the new pfn. There is even a  small window were
the old pfn is not backed by a mfn, and during that time all reads
return -1.

Because it is not known upfront where the MMIO region is located it can
not be used right from the start in xen_hvm_init_shared_info.

To minimise trouble the move of the pfn is done shortly before kexec.
This does not eliminate the race because all vcpus are still online when
the syscore_ops will be called. But hopefully there is no work pending
at this point in time. Also the syscore_op is run last which reduces the
risk further.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-07-19 15:52:05 -04:00
..
xen-pciback Two fixes for regressions: 2012-04-06 17:54:53 -07:00
xenbus xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel 2012-07-19 15:52:02 -04:00
xenfs xen: Add xenbus device driver 2011-12-16 13:29:39 -05:00
Kconfig xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform 2012-07-19 15:51:36 -04:00
Makefile xen/pcpu: Xen physical cpus online/offline sys interface 2012-07-19 15:51:39 -04:00
acpi.c xen/acpi/sleep: Enable ACPI sleep via the __acpi_os_prepare_sleep 2012-05-07 15:33:18 -04:00
balloon.c xen/balloon: Avoid OOM when requesting highmem 2011-11-16 12:13:43 -05:00
biomerge.c xen: using EXPORT_SYMBOL requires including export.h 2012-01-18 15:37:49 -08:00
cpu_hotplug.c xen/bootup: During bootup suppress XENBUS: Unable to read cpu state 2012-02-03 16:05:30 -05:00
events.c Five bug-fixes: 2012-06-15 17:17:15 -07:00
evtchn.c xen/event: Add reference counting to event channels 2011-11-21 17:14:48 -05:00
features.c xen: clean up asm/xen/hypervisor.h 2008-12-16 21:50:31 +01:00
gntalloc.c xen-gntalloc: introduce missing kfree 2012-01-03 13:39:04 -05:00
gntdev.c xen/gntdev: do not set VM_PFNMAP 2012-04-17 13:27:17 -04:00
grant-table.c Features: 2012-05-24 16:02:08 -07:00
manage.c xen/resume: Fix compile warnings. 2012-04-19 15:12:49 -04:00
mcelog.c xen/mce: add .poll method for mcelog device driver 2012-07-19 15:51:41 -04:00
pci.c xen/pci: Check for PCI bridge before using it. 2012-05-30 10:16:35 -04:00
pcpu.c xen/pcpu: Xen physical cpus online/offline sys interface 2012-07-19 15:51:39 -04:00
platform-pci.c xen PVonHVM: move shared_info to MMIO before kexec 2012-07-19 15:52:05 -04:00
privcmd.c xen/privcmd: Remove unused support for arch specific privcmp mmap 2011-12-16 13:29:42 -05:00
privcmd.h xen: Add privcmd device driver 2011-12-16 13:29:31 -05:00
swiotlb-xen.c X86 & IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes 2012-03-28 16:36:31 +02:00
sys-hypervisor.c xen: constify all instances of "struct attribute_group" 2012-03-14 12:34:19 -04:00
tmem.c frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load 2012-05-15 11:34:08 -04:00
xen-acpi-processor.c xen/acpi: Fix potential memory leak. 2012-07-19 15:51:42 -04:00
xen-balloon.c Features: 2012-03-22 20:16:14 -07:00
xen-selfballoon.c xen: Add selfballoning memory reservation tunable. 2012-05-21 10:52:53 -04:00
xencomm.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00