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From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@suse.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	sashal@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Check whether SEV or SME is supported first
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 11:37:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLSuRBzM6piigP8t@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <905ecd90-54d2-35f1-c8ab-c123d8a3d9a0@hygon.cn>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:08:32PM +0800, Pu Wen wrote:
> Reading MSR_AMD64_SEV which is not implemented on Hygon Dhyana CPU will cause
> the kernel reboot, and native_read_msr_safe() has no help.

The reason for the reboot is that there is no #GP or #DF handler set up
when this MSR is read, so its propagated to a shutdown event. But there
is an IDT already, so you can set up early and #GP handler to fix the
reboot.

Regards,

	Joerg

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-31  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-26  7:24 [PATCH] x86/sev: Check whether SEV or SME is supported first Pu Wen
2021-05-26 17:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-27 15:08   ` Pu Wen
2021-05-31  9:37     ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2021-05-31 14:56       ` Pu Wen
2021-06-01 14:39         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-01 16:14           ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-01 16:36             ` Tom Lendacky
2021-06-01 16:59               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-01 17:16                 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-01 17:48                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-01 18:08                     ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-01 18:24                       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-06-01 17:09               ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-01 18:30 ` Tom Lendacky
2021-06-02  6:55   ` Wen Pu

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