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Commit cbf2829b authored by Bryan O'Donoghue's avatar Bryan O'Donoghue Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, apic: APIC code touches invalid MSR on P5 class machines



Current APIC code assumes MSR_IA32_APICBASE is present for all systems.
Pentium Classic P5 and friends didn't have this MSR. MSR_IA32_APICBASE
was introduced as an architectural MSR by Intel @ P6.

Code paths that can touch this MSR invalidly are when vendor == Intel &&
cpu-family == 5 and APIC bit is set in CPUID - or when you simply pass
lapic on the kernel command line, on a P5.

The below patch stops Linux incorrectly interfering with the
MSR_IA32_APICBASE for P5 class machines. Other code paths exist that
touch the MSR - however those paths are not currently reachable for a
conformant P5.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F8EEDD3.1080404@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
parent 089f9fba
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