linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/11] x86: disable VMX on all CPUs on reboot

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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:51 -0200
From:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, mingo@...hat.com,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] x86: disable VMX on all CPUs on reboot

On emergency_restart, we may need to use an NMI to disable virtualization
on all CPUs. We do that using nmi_shootdown_cpus() if VMX is enabled.

Finding a proper point to hook the nmi_shootdown_cpus() call isn't
trivial, as the non-emergency machine_restart() (that doesn't need the
NMI tricks) uses machine_emergency_restart() directly.

The solution to make this work without adding a new function or argument
to machine_ops was setting a 'reboot_emergency' flag that tells if
native_machine_emergency_restart() needs to do the virt cleanup or not.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
index 6f05a28..a5f8c09 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <asm/proto.h>
 #include <asm/reboot_fixups.h>
 #include <asm/reboot.h>
+#include <asm/virtext.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 # include <linux/dmi.h>
@@ -39,6 +40,13 @@ int reboot_force;
 static int reboot_cpu = -1;
 #endif
 
+/* This is set if we need to go through the 'emergency' path.
+ * When machine_emergency_restart() is called, we may be on
+ * an inconsistent state and won't be able to do a clean cleanup
+ */
+static int reboot_emergency;
+
+
 /* This is set by the PCI code if either type 1 or type 2 PCI is detected */
 bool port_cf9_safe = false;
 
@@ -359,6 +367,48 @@ static inline void kb_wait(void)
 	}
 }
 
+static void vmxoff_nmi(int cpu, struct die_args *args)
+{
+	cpu_emergency_vmxoff();
+}
+
+/* Use NMIs as IPIs to tell all CPUs to disable virtualization
+ */
+static void emergency_vmx_disable_all(void)
+{
+	/* Just make sure we won't change CPUs while doing this */
+	local_irq_disable();
+
+	/* We need to disable VMX on all CPUs before rebooting, otherwise
+	 * we risk hanging up the machine, because the CPU ignore INIT
+	 * signals when VMX is enabled.
+	 *
+	 * We can't take any locks and we may be on an inconsistent
+	 * state, so we use NMIs as IPIs to tell the other CPUs to disable
+	 * VMX and halt.
+	 * 
+	 * For safety, we will avoid running the nmi_shootdown_cpus()
+	 * stuff unnecessarily, but we don't have a way to check
+	 * if other CPUs have VMX enabled. So we will call it only if the
+	 * CPU we are running on has VMX enabled.
+	 *
+	 * We will miss cases where VMX is not enabled on all CPUs. This
+	 * shouldn't do much harm because KVM always enable VMX on all
+	 * CPUs anyway. But we can miss it on the small window where KVM
+	 * is still enabling VMX.
+	 */
+	if (cpu_has_vmx() && cpu_vmx_enabled()) {
+		/* Disable VMX on this CPU.
+		 */
+		cpu_vmxoff();
+
+		/* Halt and disable VMX on the other CPUs */
+		nmi_shootdown_cpus(vmxoff_nmi);
+
+	}
+}
+
+
 void __attribute__((weak)) mach_reboot_fixups(void)
 {
 }
@@ -367,6 +417,9 @@ static void native_machine_emergency_restart(void)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	if (reboot_emergency)
+		emergency_vmx_disable_all();
+
 	/* Tell the BIOS if we want cold or warm reboot */
 	*((unsigned short *)__va(0x472)) = reboot_mode;
 
@@ -473,13 +526,19 @@ void native_machine_shutdown(void)
 #endif
 }
 
+static void __machine_emergency_restart(int emergency)
+{
+	reboot_emergency = emergency;
+	machine_ops.emergency_restart();
+}
+
 static void native_machine_restart(char *__unused)
 {
 	printk("machine restart\n");
 
 	if (!reboot_force)
 		machine_shutdown();
-	machine_emergency_restart();
+	__machine_emergency_restart(0);
 }
 
 static void native_machine_halt(void)
@@ -523,7 +582,7 @@ void machine_shutdown(void)
 
 void machine_emergency_restart(void)
 {
-	machine_ops.emergency_restart();
+	__machine_emergency_restart(1);
 }
 
 void machine_restart(char *cmd)
-- 
1.5.5.GIT

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