tree aca83a2fb909029adee22b2392c3f8b1f5baac61
parent 7e3bea443c47e2f499d7547dbabafbaacfa2f8e6
author Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> 1417035391 -0600
committer Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> 1417604847 +0100

x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only

commit c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343 upstream.

On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
as required on AMD processors.

The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
is a KVM bug that has to be fixed.  However, picking the right instruction
between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
the hypervisor.

Reported-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Tested-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>