Commit 2f62f36e authored by Miroslav Benes's avatar Miroslav Benes Committed by Juergen Gross

x86/xen: Make the boot CPU idle task reliable

The unwinder reports the boot CPU idle task's stack on XEN PV as
unreliable, which affects at least live patching. There are two reasons
for this. First, the task does not follow the x86 convention that its
stack starts at the offset right below saved pt_regs. It allows the
unwinder to easily detect the end of the stack and verify it. Second,
startup_xen() function does not store the return address before jumping
to xen_start_kernel() which confuses the unwinder.

Amend both issues by moving the starting point of initial stack in
startup_xen() and storing the return address before the jump, which is
exactly what call instruction does.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
parent 69086bd6
......@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_xen)
rep __ASM_SIZE(stos)
mov %_ASM_SI, xen_start_info
mov $init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE, %_ASM_SP
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
mov initial_stack(%rip), %rsp
#else
mov pa(initial_stack), %esp
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/* Set up %gs.
......@@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_xen)
wrmsr
#endif
jmp xen_start_kernel
call xen_start_kernel
SYM_CODE_END(startup_xen)
__FINIT
#endif
......
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