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-rw-r--r--pkg/ring0/kernel_amd64.go22
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/ring0/kernel_amd64.go b/pkg/ring0/kernel_amd64.go
index 41dfd0bf9..f63af8b76 100644
--- a/pkg/ring0/kernel_amd64.go
+++ b/pkg/ring0/kernel_amd64.go
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ func (c *CPU) SwitchToUser(switchOpts SwitchOpts) (vector Vector) {
return
}
+var sentryXCR0 = xgetbv(0)
+
// start is the CPU entrypoint.
//
// This is called from the Start asm stub (see entry_amd64.go); on return the
@@ -265,24 +267,10 @@ func start(c *CPU) {
WriteGS(kernelAddr(c.kernelEntry))
WriteFS(uintptr(c.registers.Fs_base))
- // Initialize floating point.
- //
- // Note that on skylake, the valid XCR0 mask reported seems to be 0xff.
- // This breaks down as:
- //
- // bit0 - x87
- // bit1 - SSE
- // bit2 - AVX
- // bit3-4 - MPX
- // bit5-7 - AVX512
- //
- // For some reason, enabled MPX & AVX512 on platforms that report them
- // seems to be cause a general protection fault. (Maybe there are some
- // virtualization issues and these aren't exported to the guest cpuid.)
- // This needs further investigation, but we can limit the floating
- // point operations to x87, SSE & AVX for now.
fninit()
- xsetbv(0, validXCR0Mask&0x7)
+ // Need to sync XCR0 with the host, because xsave and xrstor can be
+ // called from different contexts.
+ xsetbv(0, sentryXCR0)
// Set the syscall target.
wrmsr(_MSR_LSTAR, kernelFunc(sysenter))