From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753234AbaCGTLR (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:11:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64307 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752914AbaCGTLQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:11:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:10:50 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Fengguang Wu , Andreas Herrmann , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Yinghai Lu , LKML Subject: Re: [qemu64,+smep,+smap] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c:220 init_amd() Message-ID: <20140307191050.GA10961@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "H. Peter Anvin" , Fengguang Wu , Andreas Herrmann , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Yinghai Lu , LKML References: <20140307015833.GA10048@localhost> <53195336.9080606@linux.intel.com> <20140307055035.GA5230@localhost> <531A164B.8040402@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <531A164B.8040402@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 10:56:11AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/06/2014 09:50 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote: > >> > >> Unfortunately these things are hard to fix in Qemu. > > > > OK. As an alternative, is it possible to pass one of the below CPUID flags in > > the Qemu command line, so as to quiet the warning? > > > > I don't see the AMD SMP CPUID flag in there. > > Boris, could you help? The problem is that "qemu -cpu > qemu64,+smep,+smap" identifies as an AMD CPU which triggers a > warning/taint because the SMP flag isn't set. qemu64 triggers this ? That spew comes from amd_k7_smp_check() which should only run on family 6, which was all 32bit. Dave