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authorVitaly Kuznetsov <[email protected]>2017-10-05 13:39:24 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-10-10 12:54:56 +0200
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parenta3b7424392924e778b608e30ee321f7b10cc94b8 (diff)
x86/hyperv: Don't use percpu areas for pcpu_flush/pcpu_flush_ex structures
hv_do_hypercall() does virt_to_phys() translation and with some configs (CONFIG_SLAB) this doesn't work for percpu areas, we pass wrong memory to hypervisor and get #GP. We could use working slow_virt_to_phys() instead but doing so kills the performance. Move pcpu_flush/pcpu_flush_ex structures out of percpu areas and allocate memory on first call. The additional level of indirection gives us a small performance penalty, in future we may consider introducing hypercall functions which avoid virt_to_phys() conversion and cache physical addresses of pcpu_flush/pcpu_flush_ex structures somewhere. Reported-by: Simon Xiao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[email protected]> Cc: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]> Cc: Jork Loeser <[email protected]> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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