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From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
To: avi@redhat.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ignore AMDs HWCR register access to set the FFDIS bit
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:20:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245709224-974-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com> (raw)

Linux tries to disable the flush filter on all AMD K8 CPUs. Since KVM
does not handle the needed MSR, the injected #GP will panic the Linux
kernel. Ignore setting of the HWCR.FFDIS bit in this MSR to let Linux
boot with an AMD K8 family guest CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 5a66bb9..4c19c24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -796,6 +796,13 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
 	case MSR_EFER:
 		set_efer(vcpu, data);
 		break;
+	case MSR_K7_HWCR:
+		if (data != 0x40) {
+			pr_unimpl(vcpu, "unimplemented HWCR wrmsr: 0x%llx\n",
+				data);
+			return 1;
+		}
+		break;
 	case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR:
 		if (!data) {
 			/* We support the non-activated case already */
-- 
1.6.1.3



             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-22 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-22 22:20 Andre Przywara [this message]
2009-06-24  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] ignore AMDs HWCR register access to set the FFDIS bit Avi Kivity

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