linux-kernel - Re: selftests/x86/fsgsbase

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:51:19 -0800
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dan Rue <dan.rue@...aro.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@...tuozzo.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: selftests/x86/fsgsbase_64 test problem

On 01/26/18 11:46, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Under QEMU TCG, gs stays equal to 1.  On native or KVM, on Skylake, it
> changes to 0.
> 
> On KVM or native, I do not observe do_debug getting called with %gs ==
> 1.  On TCG, I do.  I don't think that's precisely the problem that's
> causing the test to fail, since the test doesn't use TF or ptrace, but
> I wouldn't be shocked if it's related.
> 
> hpa, any insight?
> 
> (NB: if you want to play with this as I've described it, you may need
> to make invalid_selector() in ptrace.c always return false.  The
> current implementation is too strict and causes problems.)
> 

Looking at it.  I want to grok this in the general context of fsgsbase
as well, of course.

	-hpa