Re: [RFC] msr: judge the return val of function rdmsrl_on_cpu() by WARN_ON

[H. Peter Anvin]

On June 29, 2023 12:27:54 AM PDT, lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>From: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>There are ten places call rdmsrl_on_cpu() in the current code without
>judging the return value. This may introduce a potential bug. For example,
>inj_bank_set() may return -EINVAL, show_base_frequency() may show an error
>freq value, intel_pstate_hwp_set() may write an error value to the related
>msr register and so on. But rdmsrl_on_cpu() do rarely returns an error, so
>it seems that add a WARN_ON is enough for debugging.
>
>Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/inject.c |  2 +-
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c   | 18 +++++++++---------
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/inject.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/inject.c
>index 12cf2e7ca33c..0a34057f4fc6 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/inject.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/inject.c
>@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ static int inj_bank_set(void *data, u64 val)
> 	u64 cap;
> 
> 	/* Get bank count on target CPU so we can handle non-uniform values. */
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(m->extcpu, MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP, &cap);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(m->extcpu, MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP, &cap));
> 	n_banks = cap & MCG_BANKCNT_MASK;
> 
> 	if (val >= n_banks) {
>diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
>index 2548ec92faa2..fe2bdb38d6a0 100644
>--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
>+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
>@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static ssize_t show_base_frequency(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
> 	if (ratio <= 0) {
> 		u64 cap;
> 
>-		rdmsrl_on_cpu(policy->cpu, MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES, &cap);
>+		WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(policy->cpu, MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES, &cap));
> 		ratio = HWP_GUARANTEED_PERF(cap);
> 	}
> 
>@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static void __intel_pstate_get_hwp_cap(struct cpudata *cpu)
> {
> 	u64 cap;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu->cpu, MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES, &cap);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu->cpu, MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES, &cap));
> 	WRITE_ONCE(cpu->hwp_cap_cached, cap);
> 	cpu->pstate.max_pstate = HWP_GUARANTEED_PERF(cap);
> 	cpu->pstate.turbo_pstate = HWP_HIGHEST_PERF(cap);
>@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ static void intel_pstate_hwp_set(unsigned int cpu)
> 	if (cpu_data->policy == CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE)
> 		min = max;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_HWP_REQUEST, &value);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_HWP_REQUEST, &value));
> 
> 	value &= ~HWP_MIN_PERF(~0L);
> 	value |= HWP_MIN_PERF(min);
>@@ -1802,7 +1802,7 @@ static int core_get_min_pstate(int cpu)
> {
> 	u64 value;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &value);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &value));
> 	return (value >> 40) & 0xFF;
> }
> 
>@@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ static int core_get_max_pstate_physical(int cpu)
> {
> 	u64 value;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &value);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &value));
> 	return (value >> 8) & 0xFF;
> }
> 
>@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ static int core_get_max_pstate(int cpu)
> 	int tdp_ratio;
> 	int err;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &plat_info);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &plat_info));
> 	max_pstate = (plat_info >> 8) & 0xFF;
> 
> 	tdp_ratio = core_get_tdp_ratio(cpu, plat_info);
>@@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ static int core_get_turbo_pstate(int cpu)
> 	u64 value;
> 	int nont, ret;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT, &value);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT, &value));
> 	nont = core_get_max_pstate(cpu);
> 	ret = (value) & 255;
> 	if (ret <= nont)
>@@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ static int knl_get_turbo_pstate(int cpu)
> 	u64 value;
> 	int nont, ret;
> 
>-	rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT, &value);
>+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT, &value));
> 	nont = core_get_max_pstate(cpu);
> 	ret = (((value) >> 8) & 0xFF);
> 	if (ret <= nont)
>@@ -2974,7 +2974,7 @@ static int intel_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> 
> 		intel_pstate_get_hwp_cap(cpu);
> 
>-		rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu->cpu, MSR_HWP_REQUEST, &value);
>+		WARN_ON(rdmsrl_on_cpu(cpu->cpu, MSR_HWP_REQUEST, &value));
> 		WRITE_ONCE(cpu->hwp_req_cached, value);
> 
> 		cpu->epp_cached = intel_pstate_get_epp(cpu, value);

Be careful here: if a return value of zero is acceptable as an equivalent of no return, the code is correct, as we always return zero if the MSR faults.