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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xenpv: don't BUG when failing to setup NMI callback



On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 01:07:00PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> some old Xen hypervisors (prior to 3.2) forbid DomUs to register
> NMI callbacks. E.g. we have the following code in xen-3.1:
> 
>     if ( (d->domain_id != 0) || (v->vcpu_id != 0) )
>         return -EINVAL;
> 
> Commit 6efa20e49b9cb1db1ab66870cc37323474a75a13 introduced kernel
> crash in case PV guest fails to register NMI callback. All x86_64
> PV guests will fail to boot on top of such hypervisors (RHEL5
> example):
> 
> (XEN) traps.c:405:d7 Unhandled invalid opcode fault/trap [#6] in domain 7 on 
> VCPU 0 [ec=0000]
> (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
> (XEN) Domain 7 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#3:
> (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.1.2-389.el5  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
> (XEN) CPU:    3
> (XEN) RIP:    e033:[<ffffffff81004d96>]
> (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000282   CONTEXT: guest
> (XEN) rax: ffffffffffffffea   rbx: 0000000000000000   rcx: 0000000000000002
> (XEN) rdx: 0000000000000001   rsi: ffffffff81b0fe28   rdi: 0000000000000000
> (XEN) rbp: ffffffff81b0fe40   rsp: ffffffff81b0fde8   r8:  0000000000000000
> (XEN) r9:  ffffffff81b0fdd0   r10: 0000000000007ff0   r11: 00000000ffffffff
> (XEN) r12: ffffffff81d65900   r13: 0000000000000000   r14: 0000000000000000
> (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080050033   cr4: 00000000000026b0
> (XEN) cr3: 000000013a263000   cr2: 0000000000000000
> (XEN) ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: e02b   cs: e033
> ...
> 
> However it is possible to proceed without NMI callback registered.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - skip nmi in cvt_gate_to_trap() for Xen < 3.2
> - do not call xen_enable_nmi() when running under Xen < 3.2
> - never BUG() in xen_enable_nmi()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

Awesome!

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

David, if you don't get to stash this patch in the queue - I can
do it on Friday.

> ---
>  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c |  9 +++++----
>  arch/x86/xen/setup.c     | 17 ++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> index f17b292..60ec5ef 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -746,12 +746,13 @@ static int cvt_gate_to_trap(int vector, const gate_desc 
> *val,
>                */
>               ;
>  #endif
> -     } else if (addr == (unsigned long)nmi)
> +     } else if (addr == (unsigned long)nmi) {
>               /*
> -              * Use the native version as well.
> +              * Use the native version as well but require Xen >= 3.2
>                */
> -             ;
> -     else {
> +             if (!xen_running_on_version_or_later(3, 2))
> +                     return 0;
> +     } else {
>               /* Some other trap using IST? */
>               if (WARN_ON(val->ist != 0))
>                       return 0;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> index 821a11a..fdc73d3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
> @@ -593,8 +593,14 @@ void xen_enable_syscall(void)
>  void xen_enable_nmi(void)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> -     if (register_callback(CALLBACKTYPE_nmi, (char *)nmi))
> -             BUG();
> +     int ret;
> +
> +     ret = register_callback(CALLBACKTYPE_nmi, (char *)nmi);
> +     if (ret != 0) {
> +             /* Hypervisor probably forbids us to register NMI callback or
> +                some other error happened */
> +             pr_warn("xen: failed to register NMI callback: %d\n", ret);
> +     }
>  #endif
>  }
>  void __init xen_pvmmu_arch_setup(void)
> @@ -611,7 +617,12 @@ void __init xen_pvmmu_arch_setup(void)
>  
>       xen_enable_sysenter();
>       xen_enable_syscall();
> -     xen_enable_nmi();
> +
> +     /* Xen versions prior to 3.2 forbid DomUs to register NMI callbacks */
> +     if (xen_running_on_version_or_later(3, 2))
> +             xen_enable_nmi();
> +     else
> +             pr_warn("xen: skipping NMI callback registration for Xen < 
> 3.2");
>  }
>  
>  /* This function is not called for HVM domains */
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 

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