svn commit: r333167 - stable/11/sys/amd64/vmm

Konstantin Belousov kib at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 2 08:24:59 UTC 2018


Author: kib
Date: Wed May  2 08:24:59 2018
New Revision: 333167
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333167

Log:
  MFC r332932:
  Correct undesirable interaction between caching of %cr4 in bhyve and
  invltlb_glob().

Modified:
  stable/11/sys/amd64/vmm/vmm_host.c
Directory Properties:
  stable/11/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/11/sys/amd64/vmm/vmm_host.c
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/sys/amd64/vmm/vmm_host.c	Wed May  2 08:19:06 2018	(r333166)
+++ stable/11/sys/amd64/vmm/vmm_host.c	Wed May  2 08:24:59 2018	(r333167)
@@ -59,7 +59,16 @@ vmm_host_state_init(void)
 	 */
 	vmm_host_cr0 = rcr0() | CR0_TS;
 
-	vmm_host_cr4 = rcr4();
+	/*
+	 * On non-PCID or PCID but without INVPCID support machines,
+	 * we flush kernel i.e. global TLB entries, by temporary
+	 * clearing the CR4.PGE bit, see invltlb_glob().  If
+	 * preemption occurs at the wrong time, cached vmm_host_cr4
+	 * might store the value with CR4.PGE cleared.  Since FreeBSD
+	 * requires support for PG_G on amd64, just set it
+	 * unconditionally.
+	 */
+	vmm_host_cr4 = rcr4() | CR4_PGE;
 
 	/*
 	 * Only permit a guest to use XSAVE if the host is using


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