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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index f6e20e2dbfa5..8ee32119144d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -448,21 +448,27 @@ void load_percpu_segment(int cpu) load_stack_canary_segment(); } -/* - * On 64-bit the GDT remapping is read-only. - * A global is used for Xen to change the default when required. - */ +/* Setup the fixmap mapping only once per-processor */ +static inline void setup_fixmap_gdt(int cpu) +{ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 -pgprot_t pg_fixmap_gdt_flags = PAGE_KERNEL_RO; + /* On 64-bit systems, we use a read-only fixmap GDT. */ + pgprot_t prot = PAGE_KERNEL_RO; #else -pgprot_t pg_fixmap_gdt_flags = PAGE_KERNEL; + /* + * On native 32-bit systems, the GDT cannot be read-only because + * our double fault handler uses a task gate, and entering through + * a task gate needs to change an available TSS to busy. If the GDT + * is read-only, that will triple fault. + * + * On Xen PV, the GDT must be read-only because the hypervisor requires + * it. + */ + pgprot_t prot = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) ? + PAGE_KERNEL_RO : PAGE_KERNEL; #endif -/* Setup the fixmap mapping only once per-processor */ -static inline void setup_fixmap_gdt(int cpu) -{ - __set_fixmap(get_cpu_gdt_ro_index(cpu), get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu), - pg_fixmap_gdt_flags); + __set_fixmap(get_cpu_gdt_ro_index(cpu), get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu), prot); } /* Load the original GDT from the per-cpu structure */ |