Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] x86/xen: Make the secondary CPU idle tasks reliable
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com>
Date: 2020-03-13 08:27:04
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On 12.03.20 15:20, Miroslav Benes wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The unwinder reports the secondary CPU idle tasks' stack on XEN PV as unreliable, which affects at least live patching. cpu_initialize_context() sets up the context of the CPU through VCPUOP_initialise hypercall. After it is woken up, the idle task starts in cpu_bringup_and_idle() function and its stack starts at the offset right below pt_regs. The unwinder correctly detects the end of stack there but it is confused by NULL return address in the last frame. RFC: I haven't found the way to teach the unwinder about the state of the stack there. Thus the ugly hack using assembly. Similar to what startup_xen() has got for boot CPU. It introduces objtool "unreachable instruction" warning just right after the jump to cpu_bringup_and_idle(). It should show the idea what needs to be done though, I think. Ideas welcome. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> --- arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c | 3 ++- arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c index 802ee5bba66c..6b88cdcbef8f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct xen_common_irq, xen_irq_work) = { .irq = -1 }; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct xen_common_irq, xen_pmu_irq) = { .irq = -1 }; static irqreturn_t xen_irq_work_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id); +extern unsigned char asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle[]; static void cpu_bringup(void) {
Would adding this here work? + asm volatile (UNWIND_HINT(ORC_REG_UNDEFINED, 0, ORC_TYPE_CALL, 1)); Juergen