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Commit 5fc3dab0 authored by Frank van der Linden's avatar Frank van der Linden Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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x86/CPU/AMD: Don't force the CPB cap when running under a hypervisor



commit 2ac44ab6 upstream.

For F17h AMD CPUs, the CPB capability ('Core Performance Boost') is forcibly set,
because some versions of that chip incorrectly report that they do not have it.

However, a hypervisor may filter out the CPB capability, for good
reasons. For example, KVM currently does not emulate setting the CPB
bit in MSR_K7_HWCR, and unchecked MSR access errors will be thrown
when trying to set it as a guest:

	unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0xc0010015 (tried to write 0x0000000001000011) at rIP: 0xffffffff890638f4 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)

	Call Trace:
	boost_set_msr+0x50/0x80 [acpi_cpufreq]
	cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x86/0x560
	sort_range+0x20/0x20
	cpuhp_thread_fun+0xb0/0x110
	smpboot_thread_fn+0xef/0x160
	kthread+0x113/0x130
	kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
	ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

To avoid this issue, don't forcibly set the CPB capability for a CPU
when running under a hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com
Fixes: 02371991 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Set the CPB bit unconditionally on F17h")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190522221745.GA15789@dev-dsk-fllinden-2c-c1893d73.us-west-2.amazon.com


[ Minor edits to the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
parent ba761bfb
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