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In check_hw_exists() we try to detect non-emulated MSR accesses by writing an arbitrary value into one of the PMU registers and check if it's value after a readout is still the same. This algorithm silently assumes that the register does not contain the magic value already, which is wrong in at least one situation. Fix the algorithm to really do a read-modify-write cycle. This fixes a warning under Xen under some circumstances on AMD family 10h CPUs. The reasons in more details actually sound like a story from Believe It or Not!: First you need an AMD family 10h/12h CPU. These do not reset the PERF_CTR registers on a reboot. Now you boot bare metal Linux, which goes successfully through this check, but leaves the magic value of 0xabcd in the register. You don't use the performance counters, but do a reboot (warm reset). Then you choose to boot Xen. The check will be triggered with a recent Linux kernel as Dom0 again, trying to write 0xabcd into the MSR. Xen silently drops the write (expected), but the subsequent read will return the value in the register, which just happens to be the expected magic value. Thus the test misleadingly succeeds, leaving the kernel in the belief that the PMU is available. This will trigger the following message: [ 0.020294] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.020311] WARNING: at arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:730 xen_apic_write+0x15/0x17() [ 0.020318] Hardware name: empty [ 0.020323] Modules linked in: [ 0.020334] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.8 #7 [ 0.020340] Call Trace: [ 0.020354] [<ffffffff81050379>] warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98 [ 0.020369] [<ffffffff810503a6>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17 [ 0.020378] [<ffffffff810034df>] xen_apic_write+0x15/0x17 [ 0.020392] [<ffffffff8101cb2b>] perf_events_lapic_init+0x2e/0x30 [ 0.020410] [<ffffffff81ee4dd0>] init_hw_perf_events+0x250/0x407 [ 0.020419] [<ffffffff81ee4b80>] ? check_bugs+0x2d/0x2d [ 0.020430] [<ffffffff81002181>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x131 [ 0.020444] [<ffffffff81edbbf9>] kernel_init+0x91/0x15d [ 0.020456] [<ffffffff817caaa4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 0.020471] [<ffffffff817c347c>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6 [ 0.020481] [<ffffffff817caaa0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 [ 0.020500] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- The new code will change every of the 16 low bits read from the register and tries to write and read-back that modified number from the MSR. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349797115-28346-2-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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