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[v4,31/75] x86/head/64: Reload GDT after switch to virtual addresses

Message ID 20200714120917.11253-32-joro@8bytes.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series x86: SEV-ES Guest Support | expand

Commit Message

Joerg Roedel July 14, 2020, 12:08 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 473e60a12e2f..87ea9f540608 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -164,6 +164,11 @@  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_descr+2(%rip)
+	lgdt	boot_gdt_descr(%rip)
+
 	/* Check if nx is implemented */
 	movl	$0x80000001, %eax
 	cpuid