Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/coco: Add a new CC attribute to unify cache flush during kexec

[Huang, Kai]

On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 10:28 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 04:30:13PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > I believe the issues were that different Intel systems would hang or reset
> > and it was bisected to that commit that added the WBINVD. It was a while
> > ago, but I remember that they were similar to what the 1f5e7eb7868e commit
> > ended up fixing, which was debugged because sometimes the WBINVD was still
> > occasionally issued resulting in the following patch
> > 
> >   9b040453d444 ("x86/smp: Dont access non-existing CPUID leaf")
> > 
> > It just means that if we go to an unconditional WBINVD, then we need to be
> > careful.
> 
> Let's try it.
> 
> Dave, do you remember what issues
> 
>   f23d74f6c66c ("x86/mm: Rework wbinvd, hlt operation in stop_this_cpu()")
> 
> fixed?
> 
> If so, can you try the below diff ontop of latest tip/master to see if
> those issues would reappear?
> 
> Thx.
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> index ab49ade31b0d..ec4dcc9f70ca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> @@ -824,8 +824,7 @@ void __noreturn stop_this_cpu(void *dummy)
>  	 * Test the CPUID bit directly because the machine might've cleared
>  	 * X86_FEATURE_SME due to cmdline options.
>  	 */
> -	if (c->extended_cpuid_level >= 0x8000001f && (cpuid_eax(0x8000001f) & BIT(0)))
> -		native_wbinvd();
> +	native_wbinvd();
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * This brings a cache line back and dirties it, but
> 

I really appreciate if Dave can help here.

I will also reach out to see whether there's anyone in Intel met this before.