From: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Avoid writing MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL when writing it is not supported
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 23:00:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c076b593-815b-f7b2-4eab-9d2087580a71@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yxe09Bk7tNwa6OsO@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 06/09/2022 22:00, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:56:47PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 9/6/22 22:43, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:17:43PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> On an Intel Atom N2600 (and presumable other Cedar Trail models)
>>>> MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL can be read, causing saved_msr.valid to be set for it
>>>> by msr_build_context().
>>>>
>>>> This causes restore_processor_state() to try and restore it, but writing
>>>> this MSR is not allowed on the Intel Atom N2600 leading to:
>>> FWIW, virt tends to do this same thing a lot. They'll allow reading
>>> random MSRs and only fail on write.
>> Right. So I guess I should send a v2 with an updated commit
>> message mentioning this ?
> Nah, just saying this is a somewhat common pattern with MSRs.
>
> The best ones are the one where writing the value read is invalid :/ or
> those who also silently eat a 0 write just for giggles. Luckily that
> doesn't happen often.
Several comments. First of all, MSR_TSX_CTRL is a fully read/write
MSR. If virt is doing this wrong, fix the hypervisor. But this doesn't
look virt related?
More importantly, MSR_TSX_CTRL does not plausibly exist on an Atom
N2600, as it is more than a decade old.
MSR_TSX_CTRL was retrofitted in microcode to the MDS_NO, TAA-vulnerable
CPUs which is a very narrow range from about 1 quarter of 2019 which
includes Cascade Lake, and then included architecturally on subsequent
parts which support TSX.
pm_save_spec_msr() is totally broken. It's poking MSRs blindly without
checking the enumeration of the capability first.
In this case, I bet the N2600 has a model specific MSR living at index
0x122 which has absolutely nothing at all to do with TSX.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-06 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-06 20:17 [PATCH] x86/cpu: Avoid writing MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL when writing it is not supported Hans de Goede
2022-09-06 20:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 20:56 ` Hans de Goede
2022-09-06 21:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 23:00 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2022-09-07 7:32 ` Hans de Goede
2022-09-08 13:34 ` Andrew Cooper
2022-09-08 1:03 ` Pawan Gupta
2022-09-08 13:46 ` Andrew Cooper
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