From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756071Ab3AURxa (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:53:30 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:52467 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755726Ab3AURx1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:53:27 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] fix kvm's use of __pa() on percpu areas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Gleb Natapov , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen From: Dave Hansen Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:52:50 -0800 References: <20130121175244.E5839E06@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130121175244.E5839E06@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20130121175250.1AAC7981@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13012117-7606-0000-0000-0000079FD649 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In short, it is illegal to call __pa() on an address holding a percpu variable. The times when this actually matters are pretty obscure (certain 32-bit NUMA systems), but it _does_ happen. It is important to keep KVM guests working on these systems because the real hardware is getting harder and harder to find. This bug manifested first by me seeing a plain hang at boot after this message: CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=f3018000 soft=f301a000 or, sometimes, it would actually make it out to the console: [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff I eventually traced it down to the KVM async pagefault code. This can be worked around by disabling that code either at compile-time, or on the kernel command-line. The kvm async pagefault code was injecting page faults in to the guest which the guest misinterpreted because its "reason" was not being properly sent from the host. The guest passes a physical address of an per-cpu async page fault structure via an MSR to the host. Since __pa() is broken on percpu data, the physical address it sent was bascially bogus and the host went scribbling on random data. The guest never saw the real reason for the page fault (it was injected by the host), assumed that the kernel had taken a _real_ page fault, and panic()'d. The behavior varied, though, depending on what got corrupted by the bad write. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Rik van Riel --- linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 9 +++++---- linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c --- linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas 2013-01-17 10:22:26.914436992 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c 2013-01-17 10:22:26.922437062 -0800 @@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ static void kvm_register_steal_time(void memset(st, 0, sizeof(*st)); - wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (__pa(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED)); + wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (slow_virt_to_phys(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED)); printk(KERN_INFO "kvm-stealtime: cpu %d, msr %lx\n", - cpu, __pa(st)); + cpu, slow_virt_to_phys(st)); } static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kvm_apic_eoi) = KVM_PV_EOI_DISABLED; @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ void __cpuinit kvm_guest_cpu_init(void) return; if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF) && kvmapf) { - u64 pa = __pa(&__get_cpu_var(apf_reason)); + u64 pa = slow_virt_to_phys(&__get_cpu_var(apf_reason)); #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT pa |= KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS; @@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ void __cpuinit kvm_guest_cpu_init(void) /* Size alignment is implied but just to make it explicit. */ BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__(kvm_apic_eoi) < 4); __get_cpu_var(kvm_apic_eoi) = 0; - pa = __pa(&__get_cpu_var(kvm_apic_eoi)) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED; + pa = slow_virt_to_phys(&__get_cpu_var(kvm_apic_eoi)) + | KVM_MSR_ENABLED; wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN, pa); } diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c --- linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas 2013-01-17 10:22:26.918437028 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c 2013-01-17 10:22:26.922437062 -0800 @@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ int kvm_register_clock(char *txt) int low, high, ret; struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src = &hv_clock[cpu].pvti; - low = (int)__pa(src) | 1; - high = ((u64)__pa(src) >> 32); + low = (int)slow_virt_to_phys(src) | 1; + high = ((u64)slow_virt_to_phys(src) >> 32); ret = native_write_msr_safe(msr_kvm_system_time, low, high); printk(KERN_INFO "kvm-clock: cpu %d, msr %x:%x, %s\n", cpu, high, low, txt); _