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authorAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>2010-03-24 17:46:42 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-04-26 07:41:37 -0700
commit6abddbe74fac81296e4d3cee3ba7327c27a96dde (patch)
tree4e7ddafd272199c79435ca8523c9fae0fcddee1b /arch/x86
parent31e104dc1fbd6e72d8d3e07c38bc77437b82d116 (diff)
KVM: allow bit 10 to be cleared in MSR_IA32_MC4_CTL
(Cherry-picked from commit 114be429c8cd44e57f312af2bbd6734e5a185b0d) There is a quirk for AMD K8 CPUs in many Linux kernels (see arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:__mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks()) that clears bit 10 in that MCE related MSR. KVM can only cope with all zeros or all ones, so it will inject a #GP into the guest, which will let it panic. So lets add a quirk to the quirk and ignore this single cleared bit. This fixes -cpu kvm64 on all machines and -cpu host on K8 machines with some guest Linux kernels. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 37d789b5367..759f88f4d23 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -799,9 +799,13 @@ static int set_msr_mce(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
if (msr >= MSR_IA32_MC0_CTL &&
msr < MSR_IA32_MC0_CTL + 4 * bank_num) {
u32 offset = msr - MSR_IA32_MC0_CTL;
- /* only 0 or all 1s can be written to IA32_MCi_CTL */
+ /* only 0 or all 1s can be written to IA32_MCi_CTL
+ * some Linux kernels though clear bit 10 in bank 4 to
+ * workaround a BIOS/GART TBL issue on AMD K8s, ignore
+ * this to avoid an uncatched #GP in the guest
+ */
if ((offset & 0x3) == 0 &&
- data != 0 && data != ~(u64)0)
+ data != 0 && (data | (1 << 10)) != ~(u64)0)
return -1;
vcpu->arch.mce_banks[offset] = data;
break;