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    x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments · 7f284d3c
    Frank Arnold authored
    When running a quest kernel on xen we get:
    
    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
    IP: [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df
    PGD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    last sysfs file:
    CPU 0
    Modules linked in:
    
    Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  2.6.34-rc3 #1 /HVM domU
    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8142f2fb>]  [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x
    2ca/0x3df
    RSP: 0018:ffff880002203e08  EFLAGS: 00010046
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000060
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: 0000000000000000
    RBP: ffff880002203ed8 R08: 00000000000017c0 R09: ffff880002203e38
    R10: ffff8800023d5d40 R11: ffffffff81a01e28 R12: ffff880187e6f5c0
    R13: ffff880002203e34 R14: ffff880002203e58 R15: ffff880002203e68
    FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880002200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 0000000001a3c000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
    DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a44020)
    Stack:
     ffffffff810d7ecb ffff880002203e20 ffffffff81059140 ffff880002203e30
    <0> ffffffff810d7ec9 0000000002203e40 000000000050d140 ffff880002203e70
    <0> 0000000002008140 0000000000000086 ffff880040020140 ffffffff81068b8b
    Call Trace:
     <IRQ>
     [<ffffffff810d7ecb>] ? sync_supers_timer_fn+0x0/0x1c
     [<ffffffff81059140>] ? mod_timer+0x23/0x25
     [<ffffffff810d7ec9>] ? arm_supers_timer+0x34/0x36
     [<ffffffff81068b8b>] ? hrtimer_get_next_event+0xa7/0xc3
     [<ffffffff81058e85>] ? get_next_timer_interrupt+0x19a/0x20d
     [<ffffffff8142fa23>] get_cpu_leaves+0x5c/0x232
     [<ffffffff8106a7b1>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1c/0x82
     [<ffffffff8106a9a0>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x75/0x7a
     [<ffffffff8107748c>] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xae/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8101f6ef>] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x18/0x27
     [<ffffffff8100a773>] call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x20
     <EOI>
     [<ffffffff8143c468>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x63
     [<ffffffff810295c6>] ? native_safe_halt+0xc/0xd
     [<ffffffff810114eb>] ? default_idle+0x36/0x53
     [<ffffffff81008c22>] cpu_idle+0xaa/0xe4
     [<ffffffff81423a9a>] rest_init+0x7e/0x80
     [<ffffffff81b10dd2>] start_kernel+0x40e/0x419
     [<ffffffff81b102c8>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb3/0xb7
     [<ffffffff81b103c4>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf8/0x107
    Code: 14 d5 40 ff ae 81 8b 14 02 31 c0 3b 15 47 1c 8b 00 7d 0e 48 8b 05 36 1c 8b
     00 48 63 d2 48 8b 04 d0 c7 85 5c ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 <8b> 70 38 48 8d 8d 5c ff
     ff ff 48 8b 78 10 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 eb
    RIP  [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df
     RSP <ffff880002203e08>
    CR2: 0000000000000038
    ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a726 ]---
    
    The L3 cache index disable feature of AMD CPUs has to be disabled if the
    kernel is running as guest on top of a hypervisor because northbridge
    devices are not available to the guest. Currently, this fixes a boot
    crash on top of Xen. In the future this will become an issue on KVM as
    well.
    
    Check if northbridge devices are present and do not enable the feature
    if there are none.
    
    [ hpa: backported to 2.6.34 ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Arnold <frank.arnold@amd.com>
    LKML-Reference: <1271945222-5283-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
    7f284d3c
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