From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, jeremy@goop.org,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, stable@vger.kernel.org#3.4+,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:51:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120530145155.GJ3207@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC633A7.1050406@zytor.com>
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:50:15AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 07:39 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:10:02PM +0200, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >> Because we are behind a family check before tweaking the topology
> >> bit, we can use the standard rd/wrmsr variants for the CPUID feature
> >> register.
> >> This fixes a crash when using the kernel as a Xen Dom0 on affected
> >> Trinity systems. The wrmsrl_amd_safe is not properly paravirtualized
> >> yet (this will be fixed in another patch).
> >
> > So with a rdmsrl_amd_safe and wrmsrl_amd_safe being implemented in
> > the pv_cpu_ops - would this patch even be neccessary?
> >
>
> That is still bogus; a better thing would be to implement the _regs
> interface. Even better would be to trap and emulate rdmsr/wrmsr!
That is what I meant - implement these two:
rdmsr_regs = native_rdmsr_safe_regs,
.wrmsr_regs = native_wrmsr_safe_regs,
Xen already traps the rdmsr/wrms - I believe it just didn't do
anything for this specific MSR.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 13:10 [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems Andre Przywara
2012-05-30 13:33 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 13:33 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 14:02 ` [Xen-devel] " Andre Przywara
2012-05-30 14:02 ` Andre Przywara
2012-05-30 14:23 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 14:23 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 14:42 ` [Xen-devel] " H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 15:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 15:40 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:40 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 14:48 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 14:48 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 14:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 15:03 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 15:03 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 17:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 22:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 23:23 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, amd, xen: Avoid NULL pointer paravirt references tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 17:32 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 17:47 ` [PATCH] x86, AMD: Fix " Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 17:47 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/amd: fix " H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 17:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 18:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 18:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 22:33 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-06 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-06 9:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-06 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-31 12:24 ` Andre Przywara
2012-05-31 12:24 ` Andre Przywara
2012-05-31 15:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-31 7:39 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 7:39 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 16:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-31 7:17 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 7:17 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 15:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 14:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2012-05-30 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:35 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:35 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 16:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 14:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 14:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 15:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 23:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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