multiboot: Fix the split lock

While running the kvm-unit-tests on Intel platforms with "split lock
disable" feature, every test triggers a kernel warning of

  x86/split lock detection: #AC: qemu-system-x86_64/373232 took a split_lock trap at address: 0x1e3

Hack KVM by exiting to QEMU on split lock #AC, we get

KVM: exception 17 exit (error code 0x0)
EAX=00000001 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000014 EDX=0001fb80
ESI=00000000 EDI=000000a8 EBP=00000000 ESP=00006f10
EIP=000001e3 EFL=00010002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0900 00009000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA]
CS =c000 000c0000 0000ffff 00009b00 DPL=0 CS16 [-RA]
SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA]
DS =c000 000c0000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA]
FS =0950 00009500 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA]
GS =06f2 00006f20 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA]
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy
GDT=     000c02b4 00000027
IDT=     00000000 000003ff
CR0=00000011 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000
DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
EFER=0000000000000000
Code=89 16 08 00 65 66 0f 01 16 06 00 66 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 22 c0 <65> 66 ff 2e 00 00 b8 10 00 00 00 8e d0 8e d8 8e c0 8e e0 8e e8 66 b8 08 00 66 ba 10 05 66

And it matches with what disassembled from multiboo_dma.bin:

 #objdump -b binary -m i386 -D pc-bios/multiboot_dma.bin

  1d1:   08 00                   or     %al,(%eax)
  1d3:   65 66 0f 01 16          lgdtw  %gs:(%esi)
  1d8:   06                      push   %es
  1d9:   00 66 b8                add    %ah,-0x48(%esi)
  1dc:   01 00                   add    %eax,(%eax)
  1de:   00 00                   add    %al,(%eax)
  1e0:   0f 22 c0                mov    %eax,%cr0
> 1e3:   65 66 ff 2e             ljmpw  *%gs:(%esi)
  1e7:   00 00                   add    %al,(%eax)
  1e9:   b8 10 00 00 00          mov    $0x10,%eax
  1ee:   8e d0                   mov    %eax,%ss
  1f0:   8e d8                   mov    %eax,%ds
  1f2:   8e c0                   mov    %eax,%es
  1f4:   8e e0                   mov    %eax,%fs
  1f6:   8e e8                   mov    %eax,%gs
  1f8:   66 b8 08 00             mov    $0x8,%ax
  1fc:   66 ba 10 05             mov    $0x510,%dx

We can see that the instruction at 0x1e3 is a far jmp through the GDT.
However, the GDT is not 8 byte aligned, the base is 0xc02b4.

Intel processors follow the LOCK semantics to set the accessed flag of the
segment descriptor when loading a segment descriptor. If the the segment
descriptor crosses two cache line, it causes split lock.

Fix it by aligning the GDT on 8 bytes, so that segment descriptor cannot
span two cache lines.

Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250808035027.2194673-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/pc-bios/multiboot_dma.bin b/pc-bios/multiboot_dma.bin
index c0e2c3102a3358207c61d3ae113524fb6007abc3..e6d0c97093b4fc11bc87fd58cbe6e577c2841cd0 100644 (file)
Binary files a/pc-bios/multiboot_dma.bin and b/pc-bios/multiboot_dma.bin differ

diff --git a/pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.S b/pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.S
index 181a4b03a3f26e85e8cdc815e5e92d64694445f6..c95e35c9cb628b3299220d3ff2123eb64e6ab626 100644 (file)
--- a/pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.S
+++ b/pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.S
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ ljmp2:
 prot_jump:     .long prot_mode
                .short 8
 
-.align 4, 0
+.align 8, 0
 gdt:
        /* 0x00 */
 .byte  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00