x86/doublefault/32: Move #DF stack and TSS to cpu_entry_area
There are three problems with the current layout of the doublefault stack and TSS. First, the TSS is only cacheline-aligned, which is not enough -- if the hardware portion of the TSS (struct x86_hw_tss) crosses a page boundary, horrible things happen [0]. Second, the stack and TSS are global, so simultaneous double faults on different CPUs will cause massive corruption. Third, the whole mechanism won't work if user CR3 is loaded, resulting in a triple fault [1]. Let the doublefault stack and TSS share a page (which prevents the TSS from spanning a page boundary), make it percpu, and move it into cpu_entry_area. Teach the stack dump code about the doublefault stack. [0] Real hardware will read past the end of the page onto the next *physical* page if a task switch happens. Virtual machines may have any number of bugs, and I would consider it reasonable for a VM to summarily kill the guest if it tries to task-switch to a page-spanning TSS. [1] Real hardware triple faults. At least some VMs seem to hang. I'm not sure what's going on. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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