On 8/9/2023 7:14 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
On Wed,  9 Aug 2023 18:27:32 +0800
Qian Wen <qian.wen@intel.com> wrote:


The legacy topology enumerated by CPUID.1.EBX[23:16] is defined in SDM
Vol2:

Bits 23-16: Maximum number of addressable IDs for logical processors in
this physical package.

When launching the VM with -smp 256, the value written to EBX[23:16] is
0 because of data overflow. If the guest only supports legacy topology,
without V2 Extended Topology enumerated by CPUID.0x1f or Extended
Topology enumerated by CPUID.0x0b to support over 255 CPUs, the return
of the kernel invoking cpu_smt_allowed() is false and AP's bring-up will
fail. Then only CPU 0 is online, and others are offline.

To avoid this issue caused by overflow, limit the max value written to
EBX[23:16] to 255.

what happens on real hw or in lack of thereof what SDM says about this
value when there is more than 255 threads?.

Current SDM doesn't specify what the value should be when APIC IDs per package exceeds 255. So we asked the internal HW architect, the response is that EBX[23:16] will report 255 instead of being truncated to a smaller value.

Thanks,
Qian


      

        
Signed-off-by: Qian Wen <qian.wen@intel.com>
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
 - Revise the commit message and comment to more clearer.
 - Rebased to v8.1.0-rc2.
---
 target/i386/cpu.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 97ad229d8b..6e1d88fbd7 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -6008,6 +6008,7 @@ void cpu_x86_cpuid(CPUX86State *env, uint32_t index, uint32_t count,
     uint32_t die_offset;
     uint32_t limit;
     uint32_t signature[3];
+    uint32_t threads_per_socket;
     X86CPUTopoInfo topo_info;
 
     topo_info.dies_per_pkg = env->nr_dies;
@@ -6049,8 +6050,19 @@ void cpu_x86_cpuid(CPUX86State *env, uint32_t index, uint32_t count,
             *ecx |= CPUID_EXT_OSXSAVE;
         }
         *edx = env->features[FEAT_1_EDX];
-        if (cs->nr_cores * cs->nr_threads > 1) {
-            *ebx |= (cs->nr_cores * cs->nr_threads) << 16;
+        /*
+         * Only bits [23:16] represent the maximum number of addressable
+         * IDs for logical processors in this physical package.
+         * When thread_per_socket > 255, it will 1) overwrite bits[31:24]
+         * which is apic_id, 2) bits [23:16] get truncated.
+         */
+        threads_per_socket = cs->nr_cores * cs->nr_threads;
+        if (threads_per_socket > 255) {
+            threads_per_socket = 255;
+        }
+
+        if (threads_per_socket > 1) {
+            *ebx |= threads_per_socket << 16;
             *edx |= CPUID_HT;
         }
         if (!cpu->enable_pmu) {