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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: unchecked MSR access error in throttle_active_work()
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 10:44:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191128094419.GB17745@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191128085447.GA3682@owl.dominikbrodowski.net>

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 09:54:47AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On most recent mainline kernels (such as 5.5-rc0 up to a6ed68d6468b), I see
> the following output in dmesg during startup:
> 
> [   78.016676] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x19c (tried to write 0x00000000880f3a80) at rIP: 0xffffffff84ab5742 (throttle_active_work+0xf2/0x230)
> [   78.016686] Call Trace:
> [   78.016694]  process_one_work+0x247/0x590
> [   78.016703]  worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0
> [   78.016710]  kthread+0x10a/0x140
> [   78.016715]  ? process_one_work+0x590/0x590
> [   78.016735]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
> [   78.016740]  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
> 
> Any clues?

Most likely

f6656208f04e ("x86/mce/therm_throt: Optimize notifications of thermal throttle")

I guess we're missing some X86_FEATURE_ check for that MSR to exist.

Adding more people to Cc.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-28  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-28  8:54 unchecked MSR access error in throttle_active_work() Dominik Brodowski
2019-11-28  9:44 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-11-28 10:29   ` Dominik Brodowski
2019-11-28 14:51     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2019-11-28 18:56       ` Dominik Brodowski
2019-11-28 19:12         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-28 19:47           ` Dominik Brodowski

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