[PATCH 1/3] x86/kexec: clear vmcss on all cpus if necessary

Zhang Yanfei zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com
Fri Oct 12 02:43:43 EDT 2012


This patch provides an alternative way to clear vmcss related to guests
on all cpus when doing kdump.

Signed-off-by: zhangyanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h |    3 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/crash.c      |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
index 317ff17..0692921 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ struct kimage_arch {
 };
 #endif
 
+extern int clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled;
+extern void (*crash_clear_loaded_vmcss)(void);
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_KEXEC_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 13ad899..947550e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/elf.h>
 #include <linux/elfcore.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/hardirq.h>
@@ -30,6 +31,24 @@
 
 int in_crash_kexec;
 
+/*
+ * If clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled is set, vmcss
+ * that are loaded on all cpus will be cleared
+ * via crash_clear_loaded_vmcss.
+ */
+int clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled;
+void (*crash_clear_loaded_vmcss)(void) = NULL;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crash_clear_loaded_vmcss);
+
+static void cpu_emergency_clear_loaded_vmcss(void)
+{
+	if (clear_loaded_vmcs_enabled &&
+	    crash_clear_loaded_vmcss &&
+	    cpu_has_vmx() && cpu_vmx_enabled()) {
+		crash_clear_loaded_vmcss();
+	}
+}
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC)
 
 static void kdump_nmi_callback(int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
@@ -46,6 +65,8 @@ static void kdump_nmi_callback(int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
 #endif
 	crash_save_cpu(regs, cpu);
 
+	cpu_emergency_clear_loaded_vmcss();
+
 	/* Disable VMX or SVM if needed.
 	 *
 	 * We need to disable virtualization on all CPUs.
@@ -88,6 +109,8 @@ void native_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus();
 
+	cpu_emergency_clear_loaded_vmcss();
+
 	/* Booting kdump kernel with VMX or SVM enabled won't work,
 	 * because (among other limitations) we can't disable paging
 	 * with the virt flags.
-- 
1.7.1



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