From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>,
Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, Hu Robert <robert.hu@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:28:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B68FE2.9070700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B68B07.8020509@siemens.com>
Il 04/07/2014 13:07, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> On 2014-07-04 12:52, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2014-07-04 11:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> Il 04/07/2014 11:33, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> The compiler is not aware of the fact that push/pop exists in this
>>>> function and, thus, places the vmcs parameter on the stack without
>>>> reserving the space. So the pushfq will overwrite the vmcs pointer and
>>>> let the function fail.
>>>
>>> Is that just a missing "memory" clobber? push/pop clobbers memory.
>>
>> Nope, we would needs some clobber like "stack". I wonder what is
>> required to use push in inline assembly safely?
>
> My colleague just found the answer: -mno-red-zone is required for 64-bit
> in order to play freely with the stack (or you need to stay off that
> zone, apparently some 128 bytes below the stack pointer). The kernel
> sets that switch, our unit tests do not.
Are you posting a patch? (Also, what compiler is that?)
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-04 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-02 6:54 [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race Wanpeng Li
2014-07-02 7:20 ` Hu, Robert
2014-07-02 9:03 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-02 9:13 ` Hu, Robert
2014-07-02 9:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-02 9:01 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-03 2:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03 5:15 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-03 6:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03 17:27 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-04 2:52 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04 5:43 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 6:08 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04 7:19 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 7:39 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04 7:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 7:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04 8:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 8:24 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04 7:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 9:33 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 9:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 10:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 11:07 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 11:28 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-07-04 11:46 ` [PATCH] Add -mno-red-zone to CFLAGS for x86-64 Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 11:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 6:17 ` [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04 7:21 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-07 0:56 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 8:46 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-07 13:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-07 17:31 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 17:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-07 17:38 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 23:14 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-08 4:35 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 23:38 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-08 5:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-02 16:27 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-03 5:11 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03 5:29 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-03 7:33 ` Jan Kiszka
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