[ 3.5.yuz extended stable ] Patch "xen/bootup: allow {read|write}_cr8 pvops call." has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xen/bootup: allow {read|write}_cr8 pvops call.

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 78de8ab75b5ec09736563fdb5907ee35dd5d4b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:25:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] xen/bootup: allow {read|write}_cr8 pvops call.

commit 1a7bbda5b1ab0e02622761305a32dc38735b90b2 upstream.

We actually do not do anything about it. Just return a default
value of zero and if the kernel tries to write anything but 0
we BUG_ON.

This fixes the case when an user tries to suspend the machine
and it blows up in save_processor_state b/c 'read_cr8' is set
to NULL and we get:

kernel BUG at /home/konrad/ssd/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:100!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 2687, comm: init.late Tainted: G           O 3.6.0upstream-00002-gac264ac-dirty #4 Bochs Bochs
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff814d5f42>]  [<ffffffff814d5f42>] save_processor_state+0x212/0x270

.. snip..
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810733bf>] do_suspend_lowlevel+0xf/0xac
 [<ffffffff8107330c>] ? x86_acpi_suspend_lowlevel+0x10c/0x150
 [<ffffffff81342ee2>] acpi_suspend_enter+0x57/0xd5

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index 93dcfdc..c1656e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -952,7 +952,16 @@ static void xen_write_cr4(unsigned long cr4)

 	native_write_cr4(cr4);
 }
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+static inline unsigned long xen_read_cr8(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+static inline void xen_write_cr8(unsigned long val)
+{
+	BUG_ON(val);
+}
+#endif
 static int xen_write_msr_safe(unsigned int msr, unsigned low, unsigned high)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -1121,6 +1130,11 @@ static const struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initconst = {
 	.read_cr4_safe = native_read_cr4_safe,
 	.write_cr4 = xen_write_cr4,

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+	.read_cr8 = xen_read_cr8,
+	.write_cr8 = xen_write_cr8,
+#endif
+
 	.wbinvd = native_wbinvd,

 	.read_msr = native_read_msr_safe,
--
1.7.9.5