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[v3,32/75] x86/head/64: Reload GDT after switch to virtual addresses

Message ID 20200428151725.31091-33-joro@8bytes.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series x86: SEV-ES Guest Support | expand

Commit Message

Joerg Roedel April 28, 2020, 3:16 p.m. UTC 
From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>

Reload the GDT after switching to virtual addresses to make sure it will
not go away when the lower mappings are removed. This will also reload
the GDT for booting APs, which will need a working GDT too to handle #VC
exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 11a28c1fb51f..20a9df062088 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -163,6 +163,11 @@  SYM_CODE_START(secondary_startup_64)
 1:
 	UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY
 
+	/* Setup boot GDT descriptor and load boot GDT */
+	leaq	boot_gdt(%rip), %rax
+	movq	%rax, boot_gdt_base(%rip)
+	lgdt	boot_gdt_descr(%rip)
+
 	/* Check if nx is implemented */
 	movl	$0x80000001, %eax
 	cpuid