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Commit f0551af0 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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x86/topology: Ignore non-present APIC IDs in a present package

Borislav reported that one of his systems has a broken MADT table which
advertises eight present APICs and 24 non-present APICs in the same
package.

The non-present ones are considered hot-pluggable by the topology
evaluation code, which is obviously bogus as there is no way to hot-plug
within the same package.

As the topology evaluation code accounts for hot-pluggable CPUs in a
package, the maximum number of cores per package is computed wrong, which
in turn causes the uncore performance counter driver to access non-existing
MSRs. It will probably confuse other entities which rely on the maximum
number of cores and threads per package too.

Cure this by ignoring hot-pluggable APIC IDs within a present package.

In theory it would be reasonable to just do this unconditionally, but then
there is this thing called reality^Wvirtualization which ruins
everything. Virtualization is the only existing user of "physical" hotplug
and the virtualization tools allow the above scenario. Whether that is
actually in use or not is unknown.

As it can be argued that the virtualization case is not affected by the
issues which exposed the reported problem, allow the bogosity if the kernel
determined that it is running in a VM for now.

Fixes: 89b0f15f

 ("x86/cpu/topology: Get rid of cpuinfo::x86_max_cores")
Reported-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87a5nbvccx.ffs@tglx
parent 9b9c280b
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