linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/x86: Update topology map for PV VCPUs

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Message-ID: <8a1df06c-f739-ad53-13e0-66425787e0d1@citrix.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Oct 2016 18:41:42 +0100
From:   Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <jgross@...e.com>
CC:     <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/x86: Update topology map for PV VCPUs

On 05/10/16 18:09, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Early during boot topology_update_package_map() computes
> logical_pkg_ids for all present processors.
>
> Later, when processors are brought up, identify_cpu() updates
> these values based on phys_pkg_id which is a function of
> initial_apicid. On PV guests the latter may point to a
> non-existing node, causing logical_pkg_ids to be set to -1.
>
> Intel's RAPL uses logical_pkg_id (as topology_logical_package_id())
> to index its arrays and therefore in this case will point to index
> 65535 (since logical_pkg_id is a u16). This could lead to either a
> crash or may actually access random memory location.
>
> As a workaround, we recompute topology during CPU bringup to reset
> logical_pkg_id to a valid value.
>
> (The reason for initial_apicid being bogus is because it is
> initial_apicid of the processor from which the guest is launched.
> This value is CPUID(1).EBX[31:24])
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>
> Copying Andrew for the CPUID part.

Yeah - that leaf is usually fiction.  (Specifically, the fiction of
whichever cpu a specific toolstack function happened to sample at the
point in time that it was choosing which cpuid values to fake up for the
guest).

I am currently working on fixing the reported topology information to be
architecturally plausible, but current and previous hypervisors will be
wrong.

~Andrew

>
>  arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> index 311acad..9fa27ce 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> @@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ static void cpu_bringup(void)
>  	cpu_data(cpu).x86_max_cores = 1;
>  	set_cpu_sibling_map(cpu);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * identify_cpu() may have set logical_pkg_id to -1 due
> +	 * to incorrect phys_proc_id. Let's re-comupte it.
> +	 */
> +	topology_update_package_map(apic->cpu_present_to_apicid(cpu), cpu);
> +
>  	xen_setup_cpu_clockevents();
>  
>  	notify_cpu_starting(cpu);