linux/arch/x86
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk b22227944b xen/mmu: On early bootup, flush the TLB when changing RO->RW bits Xen provided pagetables.
Occassionaly on a DL380 G4 the guest would crash quite early with this:

(XEN) d244:v0: unhandled page fault (ec=0003)
(XEN) Pagetable walk from ffffffff84dc7000:
(XEN)  L4[0x1ff] = 00000000c3f18067 0000000000001789
(XEN)  L3[0x1fe] = 00000000c3f14067 000000000000178d
(XEN)  L2[0x026] = 00000000dc8b2067 0000000000004def
(XEN)  L1[0x1c7] = 00100000dc8da067 0000000000004dc7
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
(XEN) Domain 244 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#3:
(XEN) ----[ Xen-4.1.3OVM  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) CPU:    3
(XEN) RIP:    e033:[<ffffffff81263f22>]
(XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000216   EM: 1   CONTEXT: pv guest
(XEN) rax: 0000000000000000   rbx: ffffffff81785f88   rcx: 000000000000003f
(XEN) rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 00000000dc8da063   rdi: ffffffff84dc7000

The offending code shows it to be a loop writting the value zero
(%rax) in the %rdi (the L4 provided by Xen) register:

   0: 44 00 00             add    %r8b,(%rax)
   3: 31 c0                 xor    %eax,%eax
   5: b9 40 00 00 00       mov    $0x40,%ecx
   a: 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 nopw   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  11: 00 00
  13: ff c9                 dec    %ecx
  15:* 48 89 07             mov    %rax,(%rdi)     <-- trapping instruction
  18: 48 89 47 08           mov    %rax,0x8(%rdi)
  1c: 48 89 47 10           mov    %rax,0x10(%rdi)

which fails. xen_setup_kernel_pagetable recycles some of the Xen's
page-table entries when it has switched over to its Linux page-tables.

Right before try to clear the page, we  make a hypercall to change
it from _RO to  _RW and that works (otherwise we would hit an BUG()).
And the _RW flag is set for that page:
(XEN)  L1[0x1c7] = 001000004885f067 0000000000004dc7

The error code is 3, so PFEC_page_present and PFEC_write_access, so page is
present (correct), and we tried to write to the page, but a violation
occurred. The one theory is that the the page entries in hardware
(which are cached) are not up to date with what we just set. Especially
as we have just done an CR3 write and flushed the multicalls.

This patch does solve the problem by flusing out the TLB page
entry after changing it from _RO to _RW and we don't hit this
issue anymore.

Fixed-Oracle-Bug: 16243091 [ON OCCASIONS VM START GOES INTO
'CRASH' STATE: CLEAR_PAGE+0X12 ON HP DL380 G4]
Reported-and-Tested-by: Saar Maoz <Saar.Maoz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-04-02 14:02:23 -04:00
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boot Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-21 18:06:55 -08:00
configs x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT 2012-12-20 14:37:18 -08:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - remove rfc3686(ctr(aes)), utilize rfc3686 from ctr-module instead 2013-01-08 07:04:47 +01:00
ia32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
include xen-pciback: notify hypervisor about devices intended to be assigned to guests 2013-03-22 10:20:55 -04:00
kernel Merge tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2013-02-24 13:07:18 -08:00
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lguest Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-21 18:06:55 -08:00
lib x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S 2013-02-11 23:14:48 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (more incoming from Andrew) 2013-02-23 17:50:35 -08:00
net x86: bpf_jit_comp: add pkt_type support 2013-01-30 22:38:34 -05:00
oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl() 2012-10-15 14:38:24 +02:00
pci xen/pci: We don't do multiple MSI's. 2013-03-01 10:54:21 -05:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-21 18:06:55 -08:00
power Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/x86/mm' into x86/mm2 2013-02-01 02:28:36 -08:00
realmode Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/x86/mm' into x86/mm2 2013-02-01 02:28:36 -08:00
syscalls x86: switch to generic old sigaction 2013-02-03 18:16:27 -05:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-05 07:57:09 +11:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
vdso timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet() 2013-02-15 12:13:18 +01:00
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xen xen/mmu: On early bootup, flush the TLB when changing RO->RW bits Xen provided pagetables. 2013-04-02 14:02:23 -04:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86, 386 removal: Document Nx586 as a 386 and thus unsupported 2012-11-29 13:28:39 -08:00
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