linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 5/8] x86/desc: add native_[ig]dt

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Message-Id: <20210519212154.511983-6-hpa@zytor.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 May 2021 14:21:51 -0700
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/8] x86/desc: add native_[ig]dt_invalidate() to <asm/desc.h>

From: "H. Peter Anvin (Intel)" <hpa@...or.com>

In some places, we want the native forms of descriptor table
invalidation. Rather than open-coding them, add explicitly native
functions to invalidate the GDT and IDT.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@...or.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
index b8429ae50b71..400c17862870 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h
@@ -224,6 +224,26 @@ static inline void store_idt(struct desc_ptr *dtr)
 	asm volatile("sidt %0":"=m" (*dtr));
 }
 
+static inline void native_gdt_invalidate(void)
+{
+	const struct desc_ptr invalid_gdt = {
+		.address = 0,
+		.size = 0
+	};
+
+	native_load_gdt(&invalid_gdt);
+}
+
+static inline void native_idt_invalidate(void)
+{
+	const struct desc_ptr invalid_idt = {
+		.address = 0,
+		.size = 0
+	};
+
+	native_load_idt(&invalid_idt);
+}
+
 /*
  * The LTR instruction marks the TSS GDT entry as busy. On 64-bit, the GDT is
  * a read-only remapping. To prevent a page fault, the GDT is switched to the
-- 
2.31.1