A set of X86 fixes:
- x2apic_disable() clears x2apic_state and x2apic_mode unconditionally,
even when the state is X2APIC_ON_LOCKED, which prevents the kernel to
disable it thereby creating inconsistent state.
Reorder the logic so it actually works correctly
- The XSTATE logic for handling LBR is incorrect as it assumes that
XSAVES supports LBR when the CPU supports LBR. In fact both conditions
need to be true. Otherwise the enablement of LBR in the IA32_XSS MSR
fails and subsequently the machine crashes on the next XRSTORS
operation because IA32_XSS is not initialized.
Cache the XSTATE support bit during init and make the related functions
use this cached information and the LBR CPU feature bit to cure this.
- Cure a long standing bug in KASLR
KASLR uses the full address space between PAGE_OFFSET and vaddr_end to
randomize the starting points of the direct map, vmalloc and vmemmap
regions. It thereby limits the size of the direct map by using the
installed memory size plus an extra configurable margin for hot-plug
memory. This limitation is done to gain more randomization space
because otherwise only the holes between the direct map, vmalloc,
vmemmap and vaddr_end would be usable for randomizing.
The limited direct map size is not exposed to the rest of the kernel, so
the memory hot-plug and resource management related code paths still
operate under the assumption that the available address space can be
determined with MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
request_free_mem_region() allocates from (1 << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1
downwards. That means the first allocation happens past the end of the
direct map and if unlucky this address is in the vmalloc space, which
causes high_memory to become greater than VMALLOC_START and consequently
causes iounmap() to fail for valid ioremap addresses.
Cure this by exposing the end of the direct map via PHYSMEM_END and use
that for the memory hot-plug and resource management related places
instead of relying on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. In the KASLR case PHYSMEM_END
maps to a variable which is initialized by the KASLR initialization and
otherwise it is based on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS as before.