Re: [Qemu-devel] Possible bug in target-i386/helper.c:do_cpu_init()?

[Bill Paul]

Ping?

> Consider the following circumstances:
> 
> - An x86-64 multicore system is running with all cores set for long mode
>   (EFER.LME and EFER.LMA set)
> - The OS decides to re-launch one of the AP CPUs using an INIT IPI
> 
> According to the Intel architecture manual, an INIT IPI should reset the
> CPU state (with a few small exceptions):
> 
> [...]
> 10.4.7.3       Local APIC State After an INIT Reset ("Wait-for-SIPI" State)
> 
> An INIT reset of the processor can be initiated in either of two ways:
> ·    By asserting the processor's INIT# pin.
> ·    By sending the processor an INIT IPI (an IPI with the delivery mode
> set to INIT).
> 
> Upon receiving an INIT through either of these mechanisms, the processor
> responds by beginning the initialization process of the processor core and
> the local APIC. The state of the local APIC following an INIT reset is the
> same as it is after a power-up or hardware reset, except that the APIC ID
> and arbitration ID registers are not affected. This state is also referred
> to at the "wait-for-SIPI" state (see also: Section 8.4.2, "MP
> Initialization Protocol Requirements and Restrictions").
> [...]
> 
> Note however that do_cpu_init() does this:
> 
> 1225 void do_cpu_init(X86CPU *cpu)
> 1226 {
> 1227     CPUState *cs = CPU(cpu);
> 1228     CPUX86State *env = &cpu->env;
> 1229     CPUX86State *save = g_new(CPUX86State, 1);
> 1230     int sipi = cs->interrupt_request & CPU_INTERRUPT_SIPI;
> 1231
> 1232     *save = *env;
> 1233
> 1234     cpu_reset(cs);
> 1235     cs->interrupt_request = sipi;
> 1236     memcpy(&env->start_init_save, &save->start_init_save,
> 1237            offsetof(CPUX86State, end_init_save) -
> 1238            offsetof(CPUX86State, start_init_save));
> 1239     g_free(save);
> 1240
> 1241     if (kvm_enabled()) {
> 1242         kvm_arch_do_init_vcpu(cpu);
> 1243     }
> 1244     apic_init_reset(cpu->apic_state);
> 1245 }
> 
> The CPU environment, which in this case includes the EFER state, is saved
> and restored when calling cpu_reset(). The x86_cpu_reset() function
> actually does clear all of the CPU environment, but this function puts it
> all back.
> 
> The result of this is that if the CPU was in long mode and you do an INIT
> IPI, the CPU still has the EFER.LMA and EFER.LME bits set, even though
> it's not actually running in long mode anymore. It doesn't seem possible
> for the guest to get the CPU out of this state, and one nasty side-effect
> is that trying to set the CR0 to enable paging never succeeds.
> 
> I added the following code at line 1240 above as a workaround:
> 
> #ifdef TARGET_X86_64
>     /*
>      * The initial state of the CPU is not 64-bit mode. This being
>      * the case, don't leave the EFER.LME or EFER.LME bits set.
>      */
> 
>     cpu_load_efer(env, 0);
> #endif
> 
> This seemed to fix the problem I was having, however I'm not certain this
> is the correct fix.
> 
> As background, I ran across this problem testing VxWorks with QEMU 2.3.0
> and OVMF firmware. The VxWorks BOOTX64.EFI loader is able to load and run
> 32-bit VxWorks images on 64-bit hardware by forcing the CPU back to 32-bit
> mode before handing control to the OS. However it only does this for the
> BSP (CPU 0). It turns out that the UEFI firmware puts the AP cores into
> long mode too. (This may be new in recent UEFI/OVMF versions, because I'm
> pretty sure tested this path before and didn't see a problem.) Everything
> works ok with uniprocessor images, but with SMP images, launching the
> first AP CPU fails due to the above condition (the CPU starts up, but is
> unable to enable paging and dies screaming in short order).
> 
> Booting with the 32-bit OVMF build and the VxWorks BOOTIA32.EFI loader
> works ok. The same VxWorks loader and kernel code also seems to run ok on
> real hardware.
> 
> I'm using QEMU 2.3.0 on FreeBSD/amd64 9.2-RELEASE. I'm not using KVM. It
> looks like the code is still the same in the git repo. Am I correct that
> do_cpu_init() should be clearing the EFER contents?
> 
> -Bill

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