Re: [REGRESSION][4.0-rc1] My i386 fails to do CPU hotplug

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Interesting that the fault happened at "<0f> 01 d1" and that matches:
>
> static inline void xsetbv(u32 index, u64 value)

Xsetbv is only available to CPU's that support xsave, and if
cr.osxsave is set (BIT 18). But you have CR4: 000000b0

Considering that xstate_enable() looks like this:

        cr4_set_bits(X86_CR4_OSXSAVE);
        xsetbv(XCR_XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK, pcntxt_mask);

I think it's safe to say that cr4_set_bits() is buggered.

Your "Code:" line actually gives the whole disassembly:

   0: 64 8b 15 88 d0 43 c1 mov    %fs:0xc143d088,%edx
   7: 89 d0                 mov    %edx,%eax
   9: 0d 00 00 04 00       or     $0x40000,%eax
   e: 55                   push   %ebp
   f: 39 d0                 cmp    %edx,%eax
  11: 89 e5                 mov    %esp,%ebp
  13: 74 09                 je     0x1e
  15: 64 a3 88 d0 43 c1     mov    %eax,%fs:0xc143d088
  1b: 0f 22 e0             mov    %eax,%cr4
  1e: 8b 15 3c c9 44 c1     mov    0xc144c93c,%edx
  24: 31 c9                 xor    %ecx,%ecx
  26: a1 38 c9 44 c1       mov    0xc144c938,%eax
  2b:* 0f 01 d1             xsetbv <-- trapping instruction
  2e: 5d                   pop    %ebp
  2f: c3                   ret

and that actually looks right (setting bit 18 in the cached copy,
writing it back to cr4 if it's different), which makes me suspect that
the problem is that the cached copy was garbage.

Presumably there is some initialization missing - I suspect that the
cached value of cr4 is from the *previous* time the CPU was up, and we
don't correctly initialize the cached copy at early CPU bringup.

Andy, over to you,

                         Linus
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