[Xen-devel] [PATCH V2 0/6] mini-os: check and fix up against nested events in x86-64 kernel entry

[Xu Zhang <xzhang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

mini-os almost always use direct iret to return from interrupt.
But this operation is not atomic because Xen uses event mask to
enable/disable event delivery. So there is a window for nested 
events to happen after re-enabling event delivery and before
a direct iret.

The issues come with such non-atomicity have been discussed in:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-06/msg00142.html

And also on Xen-devel:
http://markmail.org/message/jkzhzy6fyes6igcf

This patch checks and fixes up against nested events in a similar 
fashion of Linux 32bit pvops.
It checks against re-entrant of critical section in event handling 
callback. Try to fix up by coalescing the two stack frames into
one when the a nested event came. 
It then resumes execution as if the second event never happened.

It also refactors mini-os's x86-64 kernel entry assembly code.

Xu Zhang (6):
  mini-os/x86-64 entry: code clean-ups; no functional changes
  mini-os/x86-64 entry: define macros for registers partial save and
    restore; no functional changes
  mini-os/x86-64 entry: code refactoring; no functional changes
  mini-os/x86-64 entry: remove unnecessary event blocking
  mini-os/x86-64 entry: defer RESTORE_REST until return
  mini-os/x86-64 entry: check against nested events and try to fix up

 extras/mini-os/arch/x86/x86_64.S |  245 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

---
Changed since v1:
 * Drop the chunky lookup table; use Linux x86-32's fixup strategy instead,
   as suggested by Jeremy Fitzhardinge;
 * Reflect Samuel Thibault's comments.

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1.7.7.6


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