e61ab42de8
It is error-prone that code after vmexit cannot access percpu data
because GSBASE has not been restored yet. It forces MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
save/restore to happen very late, after the predictor untraining
sequence, and it gets in the way of return stack depth tracking
(a retbleed mitigation that is in linux-next as of 2022-11-09).
As a first step towards fixing that, move the VMCB VMSAVE/VMLOAD to
assembly, essentially undoing commit fb0c4a4fee5a ("KVM: SVM: move
VMLOAD/VMSAVE to C code", 2021-03-15). The reason for that commit was
that it made it simpler to use a different VMCB for VMLOAD/VMSAVE versus
VMRUN; but that is not a big hassle anymore thanks to the kvm-asm-offsets
machinery and other related cleanups.
The idea on how to number the exception tables is stolen from
a prototype patch by Peter Zijlstra.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a149180fbcf3 ("x86: Add magic AMD return-thunk")
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/all/f571e404-e625-bae1-10e9-449b2eb4cbd8@citrix.com/>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.