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: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Borislav 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:
0237199186e7 ("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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
{
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ZEN);
- /* Fix erratum 1076: CPB feature bit not being set in CPUID. */
- if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CPB))
+ /*
+ * Fix erratum 1076: CPB feature bit not being set in CPUID.
+ * Always set it, except when running under a hypervisor.
+ */
+ if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) && !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CPB))
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CPB);
}