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Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: KVM: avoid failures due to reserved
 HyperTransport region
From:   Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@vger.kernel.org, David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:23:19 +0300
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On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 06:54 -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Accessing guest physical addresses at 0xFFFD_0000_0000 and above causes
> a failure on AMD processors because those addresses are reserved by
> HyperTransport (this is not documented).  Avoid selftests failures
> by reserving those guest physical addresses.
> 
> Fixes: ef4c9f4f6546 ("KVM: selftests: Fix 32-bit truncation of vm_get_max_gfn()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> index 10a8ed691c66..d995cc9836ee 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> @@ -309,6 +309,12 @@ struct kvm_vm *vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm)
>  	/* Limit physical addresses to PA-bits. */
>  	vm->max_gfn = ((1ULL << vm->pa_bits) >> vm->page_shift) - 1;
>  
> +#ifdef __x86_64__
> +	/* Avoid reserved HyperTransport region on AMD processors.  */
> +	if (vm->pa_bits == 48)
> +		vm->max_gfn = 0xfffcfffff;
> +#endif
> +
>  	/* Allocate and setup memory for guest. */
>  	vm->vpages_mapped = sparsebit_alloc();
>  	if (phy_pages != 0)

I probably would have restricted this workaround to AMD vendor string,
but I don't mind this to be like that as well at least for now.

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky