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Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:16:04 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
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        Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>,
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Subject: Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`
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Paul,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Paul Menzel wrote:
> I get the same with microcode updates applied.
> 
>     $ dmesg | grep 'microcode: CPU0: patch_level'
>     [    3.809210] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x0600063e
>     $ sudo modprobe msr
>     $ sudo ./wrmsr 0x49 0x1
>     wrmsr: CPU 0 cannot set MSR 0x00000049 to 0x0000000000000001
> 
> > Could you please post /proc/cpuinfo from such a boot as well?

/proc/cpuinfo unfortunately does not contain the amd specific IBPB flag,
but the dmesg of the original report says:

  Spectre V2 : mitigation: Enabling conditional Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier

which means, that the CPUID bit is set.

Can you please provide the output of:

  cpuid -1 -l 0x80000008 -r

On my AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6276 with microcode 0x600063d loaded I get:

   0x80000008 0x00: eax=0x00003030 ebx=0x00000000 ecx=0x0000500f edx=0x00000000

EBX is 0, which means that X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB is not enabled. So the
kernel does not try to use the speculation control MSR (0x49).

Thanks,

	tglx