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Commit c4c6f2ca authored by James Hogan's avatar James Hogan Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest



Ensure any hardware page table walker (HTW) is disabled while in KVM
guest mode, as KVM doesn't yet set up hardware page table walking for
guest mappings so the wrong mappings would get loaded, resulting in the
guest hanging or crashing once it reaches userland.

The HTW is disabled and re-enabled around the call to
__kvm_mips_vcpu_run() which does the initial switch into guest mode and
the final switch out of guest context. Additionally it is enabled for
the duration of guest exits (i.e. kvm_mips_handle_exit()), getting
disabled again before returning back to guest or host.

In all cases the HTW is only disabled in normal kernel mode while
interrupts are disabled, so that the HTW doesn't get left disabled if
the process is preempted.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 705699a1
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