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author | James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> | 2016-06-09 10:50:43 +0100 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2016-06-14 10:59:44 +0200 |
commit | 797179bc4fe06c89e47a9f36f886f68640b423f8 (patch) | |
tree | 61fd1880fe1814697700baf92795c23b7b858f84 /Documentation/devicetree | |
parent | 4340fa55298d17049e71c7a34e04647379c269f3 (diff) |
MIPS: KVM: Fix modular KVM under QEMU
Copy __kvm_mips_vcpu_run() into unmapped memory, so that we can never
get a TLB refill exception in it when KVM is built as a module.
This was observed to happen with the host MIPS kernel running under
QEMU, due to a not entirely transparent optimisation in the QEMU TLB
handling where TLB entries replaced with TLBWR are copied to a separate
part of the TLB array. Code in those pages continue to be executable,
but those mappings persist only until the next ASID switch, even if they
are marked global.
An ASID switch happens in __kvm_mips_vcpu_run() at exception level after
switching to the guest exception base. Subsequent TLB mapped kernel
instructions just prior to switching to the guest trigger a TLB refill
exception, which enters the guest exception handlers without updating
EPC. This appears as a guest triggered TLB refill on a host kernel
mapped (host KSeg2) address, which is not handled correctly as user
(guest) mode accesses to kernel (host) segments always generate address
error exceptions.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.x-
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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