From cb6b6df111e46b9d0f79eb971575fd50555f43f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:23:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated kexec boots will fail." Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM guest. We end up hanging at: err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); This can easily be seen with guests hanging at xenbus_init: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active SMBIOS 2.4 present. DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 3.4.0 05/13/2011 Hypervisor detected: Xen HVM Xen version 3.4. Xen Platform PCI: I/O protocol version 1 ... snip .. calling xenbus_init+0x0/0x27e @ 1 Reverting the commit or using the attached patch fixes the issue. This fix checks whether the hypervisor is older than 4.0 and if so does not try to perform the read. Fixes-Oracle-Bug: 14708233 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Olaf Hering [v2: Added a comment in the source code] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c index 131dec04794e..48220e129f85 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include #include #include "xenbus_comms.h" +#include struct xs_stored_msg { struct list_head list; @@ -618,7 +619,24 @@ static struct xenbus_watch *find_watch(const char *token) return NULL; } +/* + * Certain older XenBus toolstack cannot handle reading values that are + * not populated. Some Xen 3.4 installation are incapable of doing this + * so if we are running on anything older than 4 do not attempt to read + * control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches. + */ +static bool xen_strict_xenbus_quirk() +{ + uint32_t eax, ebx, ecx, edx, base; + base = xen_cpuid_base(); + cpuid(base + 1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); + + if ((eax >> 16) < 4) + return true; + return false; + +} static void xs_reset_watches(void) { int err, supported = 0; @@ -626,6 +644,9 @@ static void xs_reset_watches(void) if (!xen_hvm_domain() || xen_initial_domain()) return; + if (xen_strict_xenbus_quirk()) + return; + err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, "control", "platform-feature-xs_reset_watches", "%d", &supported); if (err != 1 || !supported)