linux/arch
Avi Kivity 33f9c505ed KVM: VMX: Avoid rearranging switched guest msrs while they are loaded
KVM tries to run as much as possible with the guest msrs loaded instead of
host msrs, since switching msrs is very expensive.  It also tries to minimize
the number of msrs switched according to the guest mode; for example,
MSR_LSTAR is needed only by long mode guests.  This optimization is done by
setup_msrs().

However, we must not change which msrs are switched while we are running with
guest msr state:

 - switch to guest msr state
 - call setup_msrs(), removing some msrs from the list
 - switch to host msr state, leaving a few guest msrs loaded

An easy way to trigger this is to kexec an x86_64 linux guest.  Early during
setup, the guest will switch EFER to not include SCE.  KVM will stop saving
MSR_LSTAR, and on the next msr switch it will leave the guest LSTAR loaded.
The next host syscall will end up in a random location in the kernel.

Fix by reloading the host msrs before changing the msr list.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04 15:19:50 +02:00
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alpha Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2008-02-29 15:18:44 -08:00
avr32 avr32: Fix OCD refcounting bug 2008-02-27 14:23:53 +01:00
blackfin [Blackfin] arch: kill section mismatch warnings 2008-02-29 12:02:10 +08:00
cris cris: import memset.c from newlib: fixes compile error with newer (pre4.3) gcc 2008-02-14 20:58:04 -08:00
frv FRV: Change the timerfd syscalls to be the same as i386 2008-02-20 19:58:16 -08:00
h8300 h8300: defconfig update 2008-02-23 17:12:16 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] Fix build for sim_defconfig 2008-02-11 13:23:46 -08:00
m32r ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
m68k ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
m68knommu m68knommu: fix profile timer 2008-02-14 20:58:05 -08:00
mips [MIPS] BCM47XX: Use new SSB SPROM data structure 2008-02-19 17:01:34 +00:00
mn10300 MN10300: define HZ as a config option 2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
parisc Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2008-02-21 16:18:05 -08:00
ppc [POWERPC] PPC440EP Interrupt Triggering and Level Settings 2008-02-15 21:33:02 -06:00
s390 [S390] Fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_std inline assembly. 2008-02-19 15:29:35 +01:00
sh arch/sh/drivers/dma/dma-sh.c: Correct use of ! and & 2008-02-27 10:28:48 +09:00
sparc [SPARC]: Fix build in arch/sparc/kernel/led.c 2008-02-24 18:45:09 -08:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Adjust kernel PC validation test in fault handler. 2008-02-28 20:38:15 -08:00
um sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h 2008-02-25 16:34:17 +01:00
v850 ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
x86 KVM: VMX: Avoid rearranging switched guest msrs while they are loaded 2008-03-04 15:19:50 +02:00
xtensa [XTENSA] Allow debugger to modify the WINDOWBASE register. 2008-02-13 17:45:36 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig 2008-02-03 08:58:08 +01:00