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From: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [perf] perf_fuzzer causes unchecked MSR access error
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:00:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9df5f72d-a959-fe46-400a-7dca6c596478@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBRp17EMqgoO3LTC-hTkpbv2njFO-Kkf-RifrSksdGfEaA@mail.gmail.com>



On 3/3/2021 2:28 PM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:16 AM Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> on my Haswell machine the perf_fuzzer managed to trigger this message:
>>
>> [117248.075892] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x3f1 (tried to write 0x0400000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff8106e4f4 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
>> [117248.089957] Call Trace:
>> [117248.092685]  intel_pmu_pebs_enable_all+0x31/0x40
>> [117248.097737]  intel_pmu_enable_all+0xa/0x10
>> [117248.102210]  __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x2df/0x2f0
>> [117248.107511]  finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x15f/0x280
>> [117248.112765]  schedule_tail+0xc/0x40
>> [117248.116562]  ret_from_fork+0x8/0x30
>>
>> that shouldn't be possible, should it?  MSR 0x3f1 is MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE
>>
> Not possible, bit 58 is not defined in PEBS_ENABLE, AFAIK.
> 
>>
>> this is on recent-git with the patch causing the pebs-related crash
>> reverted.
>>

We never use bit 58. It should be a new issue.
Is it repeatable?

Thanks,
Kan

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-28 14:25 [perf] perf_fuzzer causes crash in intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm() Vince Weaver
2021-01-28 19:49 ` Vince Weaver
2021-02-11 14:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-11 21:37     ` Liang, Kan
2021-02-11 22:14       ` Vince Weaver
2021-02-25 20:15         ` Liang, Kan
2021-03-01 13:20     ` Liang, Kan
2021-03-02  5:29       ` Vince Weaver
2021-03-03 18:16       ` [perf] perf_fuzzer causes unchecked MSR access error Vince Weaver
2021-03-03 19:28         ` Stephane Eranian
2021-03-03 20:00           ` Liang, Kan [this message]
2021-03-03 20:22             ` Vince Weaver
2021-03-04 19:33               ` Liang, Kan

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