x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments

7f284d3c · Frank Arnold <[email protected]> · 2010-04-22 16:06:59 +02:00

When running a quest kernel on xen we get:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
IP: [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file:
CPU 0
Modules linked in:

Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  2.6.34-rc3 #1 /HVM domU
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8142f2fb>]  [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x
2ca/0x3df
RSP: 0018:ffff880002203e08  EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000060
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff880002203ed8 R08: 00000000000017c0 R09: ffff880002203e38
R10: ffff8800023d5d40 R11: ffffffff81a01e28 R12: ffff880187e6f5c0
R13: ffff880002203e34 R14: ffff880002203e58 R15: ffff880002203e68
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880002200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 0000000001a3c000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a44020)
Stack:
 ffffffff810d7ecb ffff880002203e20 ffffffff81059140 ffff880002203e30
<0> ffffffff810d7ec9 0000000002203e40 000000000050d140 ffff880002203e70
<0> 0000000002008140 0000000000000086 ffff880040020140 ffffffff81068b8b
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 [<ffffffff810d7ecb>] ? sync_supers_timer_fn+0x0/0x1c
 [<ffffffff81059140>] ? mod_timer+0x23/0x25
 [<ffffffff810d7ec9>] ? arm_supers_timer+0x34/0x36
 [<ffffffff81068b8b>] ? hrtimer_get_next_event+0xa7/0xc3
 [<ffffffff81058e85>] ? get_next_timer_interrupt+0x19a/0x20d
 [<ffffffff8142fa23>] get_cpu_leaves+0x5c/0x232
 [<ffffffff8106a7b1>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1c/0x82
 [<ffffffff8106a9a0>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x75/0x7a
 [<ffffffff8107748c>] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xae/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8101f6ef>] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x18/0x27
 [<ffffffff8100a773>] call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x20
 <EOI>
 [<ffffffff8143c468>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x63
 [<ffffffff810295c6>] ? native_safe_halt+0xc/0xd
 [<ffffffff810114eb>] ? default_idle+0x36/0x53
 [<ffffffff81008c22>] cpu_idle+0xaa/0xe4
 [<ffffffff81423a9a>] rest_init+0x7e/0x80
 [<ffffffff81b10dd2>] start_kernel+0x40e/0x419
 [<ffffffff81b102c8>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb3/0xb7
 [<ffffffff81b103c4>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf8/0x107
Code: 14 d5 40 ff ae 81 8b 14 02 31 c0 3b 15 47 1c 8b 00 7d 0e 48 8b 05 36 1c 8b
 00 48 63 d2 48 8b 04 d0 c7 85 5c ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 <8b> 70 38 48 8d 8d 5c ff
 ff ff 48 8b 78 10 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 eb
RIP  [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df
 RSP <ffff880002203e08>
CR2: 0000000000000038
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a726 ]---

The L3 cache index disable feature of AMD CPUs has to be disabled if the
kernel is running as guest on top of a hypervisor because northbridge
devices are not available to the guest. Currently, this fixes a boot
crash on top of Xen. In the future this will become an issue on KVM as
well.

Check if northbridge devices are present and do not enable the feature
if there are none.

[ hpa: backported to 2.6.34 ]

Signed-off-by: Frank Arnold <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>

Commit: 7f284d3cc96e02468a42e045f77af11e5ff8b095
Parents: ade029e2

Changes

1 files changed · +4 −0

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c	modified	+4	−0	View file

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c

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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
index b3eeb66..95962a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ amd_check_l3_disable(int index, struct _cpuid4_info_regs *this_leaf)
 	     (boot_cpu_data.x86_mask  < 0x1)))
 		return;
 
+	/* not in virtualized environments */
+	if (num_k8_northbridges == 0)
+		return;
+
 	this_leaf->can_disable = true;
 	this_leaf->l3_indices  = amd_calc_l3_indices();
 }