[patch 24/33] xen: xen: hack to prevent bad segment register reload

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

The hypervisor saves and restores the segment registers as part of the
state is saves while context switching.  If, during a context switch,
the next process doesn't use the TLS segments, it invalidates the GDT
entry, causing the segment register reload to fault.  This fault
effectively doubles the cost of a context switch.

This patch is a band-aid workaround which clears the usermode %gs
after it has been saved for the previous process, but before it gets
reloaded for the next, and it avoids having the hypervisor attempt to
erroneously reload it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

---
 arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -291,6 +291,18 @@ static void xen_load_tls(struct thread_s
 	load_TLS_descriptor(t, cpu, 2);
 
 	xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU);
+
+	/*
+	 * XXX sleazy hack: If we're being called in a lazy-cpu zone,
+	 * it means we're in a context switch, and %gs has just been
+	 * saved.  This means we can zero it out to prevent faults on
+	 * exit from the hypervisor if the next process has no %gs.
+	 * Either way, it has been saved, and the new value will get
+	 * loaded properly.  This will go away as soon as Xen has been
+	 * modified to not save/restore %gs for normal hypercalls.
+	 */
+	if (xen_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_CPU)
+		loadsegment(gs, 0);
 }
 
 static void xen_write_ldt_entry(struct desc_struct *dt, int entrynum, u32 low, u32 high)

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