linux-kernel - [PATCHv3 1/5] x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time

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Date:   Mon,  4 Dec 2017 15:40:55 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv3 1/5] x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time

This patch prepare decompression code to boot-time switching between 4-
and 5-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>	[4.14+]
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile     |  1 +
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S    | 16 ++++++++++++----
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 1e9c322e973a..f25e1530e064 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) += $(obj)/kaslr.o
 ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) += $(obj)/pagetable.o
 	vmlinux-objs-y += $(obj)/mem_encrypt.o
+	vmlinux-objs-y += $(obj)/pgtable_64.o
 endif
 
 $(obj)/eboot.o: KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fshort-wchar -mno-red-zone
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index 20919b4f3133..fc313e29fe2c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -305,10 +305,18 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
 	leaq	boot_stack_end(%rbx), %rsp
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL
-	/* Check if 5-level paging has already enabled */
-	movq	%cr4, %rax
-	testl	$X86_CR4_LA57, %eax
-	jnz	lvl5
+	/*
+	 * Check if we need to enable 5-level paging.
+	 * RSI holds real mode data and need to be preserved across
+	 * a function call.
+	 */
+	pushq	%rsi
+	call	l5_paging_required
+	popq	%rsi
+
+	/* If l5_paging_required() returned zero, we're done here. */
+	cmpq	$0, %rax
+	je	lvl5
 
 	/*
 	 * At this point we are in long mode with 4-level paging enabled,
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eed3a2c3b577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+
+int l5_paging_required(void)
+{
+	/* Check i leaf 7 is supported. */
+	if (native_cpuid_eax(0) < 7)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Check if la57 is supported. */
+	if (!(native_cpuid_ecx(7) & (1 << (X86_FEATURE_LA57 & 31))))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Check if 5-level paging has already been enabled. */
+	if (native_read_cr4() & X86_CR4_LA57)
+		return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
-- 
2.15.0