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Commit 76b42b13 authored by Juergen Gross's avatar Juergen Gross Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/xen: add central hypercall functions


commit b4845bb6 upstream.

Add generic hypercall functions usable for all normal (i.e. not iret)
hypercalls. Depending on the guest type and the processor vendor
different functions need to be used due to the to be used instruction
for entering the hypervisor:

- PV guests need to use syscall
- HVM/PVH guests on Intel need to use vmcall
- HVM/PVH guests on AMD and Hygon need to use vmmcall

As PVH guests need to issue hypercalls very early during boot, there
is a 4th hypercall function needed for HVM/PVH which can be used on
Intel and AMD processors. It will check the vendor type and then set
the Intel or AMD specific function to use via static_call().

This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.

Reported-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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