x86/paravirt: Add new features for paravirt patching

For being able to switch paravirt patching from special cased custom
code sequences to ALTERNATIVE handling some X86_FEATURE_* are needed
as new features. This enables to have the standard indirect pv call
as the default code and to patch that with the non-Xen custom code
sequence via ALTERNATIVE patching later.

Make sure paravirt patching is performed before alternatives patching.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311142319.4723-9-jgross@suse.com

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 133b549dc091..76ad4ce454c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <asm/insn.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
+#include <asm/paravirt.h>
 
 int __read_mostly alternatives_patched;
 
@@ -733,6 +734,33 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
 	 * patching.
 	 */
 
+	/*
+	 * Paravirt patching and alternative patching can be combined to
+	 * replace a function call with a short direct code sequence (e.g.
+	 * by setting a constant return value instead of doing that in an
+	 * external function).
+	 * In order to make this work the following sequence is required:
+	 * 1. set (artificial) features depending on used paravirt
+	 *    functions which can later influence alternative patching
+	 * 2. apply paravirt patching (generally replacing an indirect
+	 *    function call with a direct one)
+	 * 3. apply alternative patching (e.g. replacing a direct function
+	 *    call with a custom code sequence)
+	 * Doing paravirt patching after alternative patching would clobber
+	 * the optimization of the custom code with a function call again.
+	 */
+	paravirt_set_cap();
+
+	/*
+	 * First patch paravirt functions, such that we overwrite the indirect
+	 * call with the direct call.
+	 */
+	apply_paravirt(__parainstructions, __parainstructions_end);
+
+	/*
+	 * Then patch alternatives, such that those paravirt calls that are in
+	 * alternatives can be overwritten by their immediate fragments.
+	 */
 	apply_alternatives(__alt_instructions, __alt_instructions_end);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -751,8 +779,6 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	apply_paravirt(__parainstructions, __parainstructions_end);
-
 	restart_nmi();
 	alternatives_patched = 1;
 }