x86_64: Early segment setup for VT

VT is very picky about when it can enter execution.
Get all segments setup and get LDT and TR into valid state to allow
VT execution under VMware and KVM (untested).

This makes the boot decompression run under VT, which makes it several
orders of magnitude faster on 64-bit Intel hardware.

Before, I was seeing times up to a minute or more to decompress a 1.3MB kernel
on a very fast box.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
index 1312bfaff306866319fcbb8dec3caf06f933c0d1..9fd8030cc54ff2e48b05004ddf34e577fb494a85 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
        movl    %eax, %ds
        movl    %eax, %es
        movl    %eax, %ss
+       movl    %eax, %fs
+       movl    %eax, %gs
+       lldt    %ax
+       movl    $0x20, %eax
+       ltr     %ax
 
        /* Compute the decompressed kernel start address.  It is where
         * we were loaded at aligned to a 2M boundary. %rbp contains the
@@ -295,6 +300,8 @@ gdt:
        .quad   0x0000000000000000      /* NULL descriptor */
        .quad   0x00af9a000000ffff      /* __KERNEL_CS */
        .quad   0x00cf92000000ffff      /* __KERNEL_DS */
+       .quad   0x0080890000000000      /* TS descriptor */
+       .quad   0x0000000000000000      /* TS continued */
 gdt_end:
        .bss
 /* Stack for uncompression */