[RFC PATCH v3 16/20] x86/kexec: Debugging support: load a GDT
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Nov 25 01:54:46 PST 2024
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
There are some failure modes which lead to triple-faults in the
relocate_kernel function, which is fairly much undebuggable for normal
mortals.
Adding a GDT in the relocate_kernel environment is step 1 towards being
able to catch faults and do something more useful.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
---
arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index b24198eb1fe9..6c6bfdccfe6a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ SYM_DATA(kexec_pa_table_page, .quad 0)
SYM_DATA(kexec_pa_swap_page, .quad 0)
SYM_DATA_LOCAL(pa_backup_pages_map, .quad 0)
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG
+ .balign 16
+SYM_DATA_START_LOCAL(kexec_debug_gdt)
+ .word kexec_debug_gdt_end - kexec_debug_gdt - 1
+ .long 0
+ .word 0
+ .quad 0x00cf9a000000ffff /* __KERNEL32_CS */
+ .quad 0x00af9a000000ffff /* __KERNEL_CS */
+ .quad 0x00cf92000000ffff /* __KERNEL_DS */
+SYM_DATA_END_LABEL(kexec_debug_gdt, SYM_L_LOCAL, kexec_debug_gdt_end)
+#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG */
+
.section .text.relocate_kernel,"ax";
.code64
SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(relocate_kernel)
@@ -112,6 +124,21 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
/* store the start address on the stack */
pushq %rdx
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG
+ /* Create a GDTR (16 bits limit, 64 bits addr) on stack */
+ leaq kexec_debug_gdt(%rip), %rax
+ pushq %rax
+ pushw (%rax)
+
+ /* Load the GDT, put the stack back */
+ lgdt (%rsp)
+ addq $10, %rsp
+
+ /* Test that we can load segments */
+ movq %ds, %rax
+ movq %rax, %ds
+#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG */
+
/*
* Clear X86_CR4_CET (if it was set) such that we can clear CR0_WP
* below.
--
2.47.0
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