[PATCH] [v2] x86, fpu: do not BUG_ON() in early FPU code

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Jul 20 2016 - 15:45:58 EST



From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think it is really possible to have a system where CPUID
enumerates support for XSAVE but that it does not have FP/SSE
(they are "legacy" features and always present).

But, I did manage to hit this case in qemu when I enabled its
somewhat shaky XSAVE support. The bummer is that the FPU is set
up before we parse the command-line or have *any* console support
including earlyprintk. That turned what should have been an easy
thing to debug in to a bit more of an odyssey.

So a BUG() here is worthless. All it does it guarantee that
if/when we hit this case we have an empty console. So, remove
the BUG() and try to limp along by disabling XSAVE and trying to
continue. Add a comment on why we are doing this, and also add
a common "out_disable" path for leaving fpu__init_system_xstate().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~x86-fpu-do-not-BUG_ON-early arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~x86-fpu-do-not-BUG_ON-early 2016-07-20 12:11:42.226323250 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c 2016-07-20 12:29:49.574991502 -0700
@@ -714,8 +714,13 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void
xfeatures_mask = eax + ((u64)edx << 32);

if ((xfeatures_mask & XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE) != XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE) {
+ /*
+ * This indicates that something really unexpected happened
+ * with the enumeration. Disable XSAVE and try to continue
+ * booting without it. This is too early to BUG().
+ */
pr_err("x86/fpu: FP/SSE not present amongst the CPU's xstate features: 0x%llx.\n", xfeatures_mask);
- BUG();
+ goto out_disable;
}

xfeatures_mask &= fpu__get_supported_xfeatures_mask();
@@ -723,11 +728,8 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void
/* Enable xstate instructions to be able to continue with initialization: */
fpu__init_cpu_xstate();
err = init_xstate_size();
- if (err) {
- /* something went wrong, boot without any XSAVE support */
- fpu__init_disable_system_xstate();
- return;
- }
+ if (err)
+ goto out_disable;

/*
* Update info used for ptrace frames; use standard-format size and no
@@ -744,6 +746,11 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void
xfeatures_mask,
fpu_kernel_xstate_size,
boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES) ? "compacted" : "standard");
+ return;
+
+out_disable:
+ /* something went wrong, try to boot without any XSAVE support */
+ fpu__init_disable_system_xstate();
}

/*
_