[PATCH] x86: introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT

Introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT.  This is required
for hypervisors like Xen that do not allow LDT pages to be directly
written.

Testing - here's a fun little LDT test that can be trivially modified to
test limits as well.

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com)
 * This is licensed under the GPL.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <asm/ldt.h>
#include <asm/segment.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#define __KERNEL__
#include <asm/page.h>

void main(void)
{
        struct user_desc desc;
        char *code;
        unsigned long long tsc;

        code = (char *)mmap(0, 8192, PROT_EXEC|PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                 MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        desc.entry_number = 0;
        desc.base_addr = code;
        desc.limit = 1;
        desc.seg_32bit = 1;
        desc.contents = MODIFY_LDT_CONTENTS_CODE;
        desc.read_exec_only = 0;
        desc.limit_in_pages = 1;
        desc.seg_not_present = 0;
        desc.useable = 1;
        if (modify_ldt(1, &desc, sizeof(desc)) != 0) {
                perror("modify_ldt");
        }
        printf("code base is 0x%08x\n", (unsigned)code);
        code[0x0ffe] = 0x0f;  /* rdtsc */
        code[0x0fff] = 0x31;
        code[0x1000] = 0xcb;  /* lret */
        __asm__ __volatile("lcall $7,$0xffe" : "=A" (tsc));
        printf("TSC is 0x%016llx\n", tsc);
}

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/desc.h b/include/asm-i386/desc.h
index ccb11c0..6df1a53 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/desc.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/desc.h
@@ -96,6 +96,13 @@ static inline void set_ldt_desc(unsigned int cpu, void *addr, unsigned int size)
 	(info)->seg_not_present	== 1	&& \
 	(info)->useable		== 0	)
 
+static inline void write_ldt_entry(void *ldt, int entry, __u32 entry_a, __u32 entry_b)
+{
+	__u32 *lp = (__u32 *)((char *)ldt + entry*8);
+	*lp = entry_a;
+	*(lp+1) = entry_b;
+}
+
 #if TLS_SIZE != 24
 # error update this code.
 #endif