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David P. Reed 53666664a3 x86/virt: Mark flags and memory as clobbered by VMXOFF 
Explicitly tell the compiler that VMXOFF modifies flags (like all VMX
instructions), and mark memory as clobbered since VMXOFF must not be
reordered and also may have memory side effects (though the kernel
really shouldn't be accessing the root VMCS anyways).

Practically speaking, adding the clobbers is most likely a nop; the
primary motivation is to properly document VMXOFF's behavior.

For the flags clobber, both Clang and GCC automatically mark flags as
clobbered; this is noted in commit 4b1e54786e ("KVM/x86: Use assembly
instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams"), which intentionally
removed the previous clobber.  But, neither Clang nor GCC documents
this behavior, and there's no downside to including the clobber.

For the memory clobber, the RFLAGS.IF and CR4.VMXE manipulations that
immediately follow VMXOFF have compiler barriers of their own, i.e.
VMXOFF can't get reordered after clearing CR4.VMXE, which is really
what's of interest.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David P. Reed <dpreed@deepplum.com>
[sean: rewrote changelog, dropped comment adjustments]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201231002702.2223707-4-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-02-04 05:27:32 -05:00
arch x86/virt: Mark flags and memory as clobbered by VMXOFF 2021-02-04 05:27:32 -05:00
block block-5.11-2021-01-10 2021-01-10 12:53:08 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.11-rc3 2021-01-10 12:24:33 -08:00
Documentation KVM: X86: Add the Document for KVM_CAP_X86_BUS_LOCK_EXIT 2021-02-04 05:27:22 -05:00
drivers KVM/SVM: add support for SEV attestation command 2021-02-04 05:27:20 -05:00
fs block-5.11-2021-01-10 2021-01-10 12:53:08 -08:00
include KVM: VMX: Enable bus lock VM exit 2021-02-04 05:27:21 -05:00
init Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console" 2021-01-08 11:02:18 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
kernel Staging driver fixes for 5.11-rc3 2021-01-10 12:28:07 -08:00
lib Kbuild fixes for v5.11 2021-01-10 13:24:55 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks 2021-01-05 11:33:00 -08:00
net nexthop: Bounce NHA_GATEWAY in FDB nexthop groups 2021-01-07 18:47:18 -08:00
samples ARM: SoC drivers for v5.11 2020-12-16 16:38:41 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.11 2021-01-10 13:24:55 -08:00
security Provide a fix for the incorrect handling of privilege 2020-12-24 14:08:43 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.11-rc3 2021-01-05 13:25:49 -08:00
tools selftests: kvm/x86: add test for pmu msr MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES 2021-02-04 05:27:27 -05:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: X86: use vzalloc() instead of vmalloc/memset 2021-02-04 05:27:15 -05:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap RDMA 5.11 pull request 2020-12-16 13:42:26 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-11 22:29:38 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Kbuild fixes for v5.11 2021-01-10 13:24:55 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.11-rc3 2021-01-10 14:34:50 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.