From: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
"Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [perf] fuzzer triggers unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x318
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:54:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88ad522-7cd5-f636-7c1f-a5ae22a76e5f@maine.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQJxka3dxgdIdebG@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:49:43PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > [32694.087403] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x318 (tried to write 0x0000000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff8106f854 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
> > [32694.101374] Call Trace:
> > [32694.103974] perf_clear_dirty_counters+0x86/0x100
>
> Hmm.. if I read this right that's MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR0 + i, given
> that FIXED_CTR0 is 0x309 that gives i == 15, which is FIXED_BTS.
>
> I'm thinking something like this ought to cure things.
I know it sounds like the complete fix is a bit different from this, but I
did want to report that the patch does fix the issue on my machine.
Vince Weaver
vincent.weaver@maine.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-29 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-28 16:49 [perf] fuzzer triggers unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x318 Vince Weaver
2021-07-29 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-07-29 13:21 ` Liang, Kan
2021-07-29 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-08-02 11:40 ` Like Xu
2021-07-29 16:54 ` Vince Weaver [this message]
2021-08-05 9:34 ` [tip: perf/urgent] perf/x86: Fix out of bound MSR access tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
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