On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
> In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
> as required on AMD processors.
>
> The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
> is a KVM bug that has to be fixed. However, picking the right instruction
> between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
> the hypervisor.
>
> -/* This instruction is vmcall. On non-VT architectures, it will generate a
> - * trap that we will then rewrite to the appropriate instruction.
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
> +#define KVM_HYPERCALL \
> + ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9",
> X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
If we can do it via a feature bit and alternatives, then why do you
want to patch it manually if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=n?
Just because more #ifdeffery makes the code more readable?
Thanks,
tglx
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