>------- Original Message -------
>Sender : Juergen Gross<jgr...@suse.com>
>Date : 2014-12-16 15:36 (GMT+09:00)
>Title : Re: [3.18+] Can't boot with commit bd809af1 ("x86: Enable PAT to use
>cache mode translation tables")
>
>On 12/16/2014 07:29 AM, Jongman Heo wrote:
>>>
>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>> Sender : Juergen Gross
>>> Date : 2014-12-16 14:14 (GMT+09:00)
>>> Title : Re: [3.18+] Can't boot with commit bd809af1 ("x86: Enable PAT to
>>> use cache mode translation tables")
>>>
>>> On 12/16/2014 05:40 AM, Jongman Heo wrote:
>>>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>>>> Sender : Juergen Gross
>>>>> Date : 2014-12-15 20:52 (GMT+09:00)
>>>>> Title : Re: [3.18+] Can't boot with commit bd809af1 ("x86: Enable PAT to
>>>>> use cache mode translation tables")
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/15/2014 08:52 AM, Jongman Heo wrote:
>>>>>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>>>>>> Sender : Juergen Gross
>>>>>>> Date : 2014-12-15 14:04 (GMT+09:00)
>>>>>>> Title : Re: [3.18+] Can't boot with commit bd809af1 ("x86: Enable PAT
>>>>>>> to use cache mode translation tables")
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/14/2014 06:07 AM, 허종만 wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My Linux virtual machine on (Windows) VMWare workstation 10 can't boot
>>>>>>>> with following commit.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> commit bd809af16e3ab1f8d55b3e2928c47c67e2a865d2
>>>>>>>> Author: Juergen Gross
>>>>>>>> Date: Mon Nov 3 14:02:03 2014 +0100
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I can't see any console log.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmm, weird. Could you provide some more information?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kernel config, hardware used, /proc/cpuinfo of working kernel?
>>>>>>> Anything you see with earlyprintk enabled?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Juergen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Sorry for resending this email, previous one bounced from mailing list
>>>>>> due to HTML format)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm using Fedora 21, with custom built kernel.
>>>>>> Host PC is windows 7 64-bit, and running VMWare workstation 10 for guest
>>>>>> Fedora Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With earlyprintk, just following message is printed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> early console in setup code
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and nothing more...
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you try attached diagnostic patch, please? I suspect a problem
>>>>> regarding VMWares PAT emulation...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Juergen
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> With the commit reverted, the patch doesn't apply.
>>>
>>> Sure.
>>>
>>>> Without revert, kernel (patch applied) doesn't boot and I can't see any
>>>> message.
>>>
>>> What are your kernel parameters? There must be some message with the
>>> diagnostic patch, as the first pr_info() is called before any other
>>> part of the critical patch is becoming active. Could it be you have
>>> instructed the kernel to be "quiet"? I'd recommend:
>>>
>>> earlyprintk=vga ignore_loglevel
>>>
>>> and no quiet. I don't know VMWare settings, so may be you can use
>>> earlyprintk=ttyS0 instead of vga.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let me show you my PAT values (the commit reverted)
>>>>
>>>> # dmesg | grep PAT
>>>> [ 0.000000] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.314631] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 3, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.314703] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.314780] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 2, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.314852] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 4, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.314923] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.314997] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 6, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.315069] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 7, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>> [ 0.315142] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 5, old 0x0, new 0x7010600070106
>>>
>>> These are the expected values. But these values are the ones which are
>>> written, not the ones which have been read from the PAT MSR again.
>>>
>>> Without applying the critical patch you could add:
>>>
>>> rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
>>> printk(KERN_INFO "PAT read: cpu %d, 0x%Lx\n", smp_processor_id(), pat);
>>>
>>> at the end of pat_init() to verify VMWare is handling reads of the PAT
>>> MSR properly.
>>>
>>> Juergen
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> With earlyprintk=vga, I can see the log.
>> But due to call trace, I can't see what the pat value is.
>>
>> Call chain is as follows.
>>
>> i386_start_kernel -> start_kernel -> setup_arch ->
>> mtrr_bp_init -> get_mtrr_state -> pat_init ->
>> pat_init_cache_mode_entry -> update_cache_mode_entry ->
>> early_idt_handler -> dump_stack
>>
>> So, I blocked update_cache_mode_entry() call like below...
>>
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
>> @@ -182,11 +182,12 @@ void pat_init_cache_modes(void)
>> u64 pat;
>>
>> rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
>> + pr_info("read pat %0llx\n", pat);
>> pat_msg[32] = 0;
>> for (i = 7; i >= 0; i--) {
>> cache = pat_get_cache_mode((pat >> (i * 8)) & 7,
>> pat_msg + 4 * i);
>> - update_cache_mode_entry(i, cache);
>> + //update_cache_mode_entry(i, cache);
>> }
>> pr_info("PAT configuration [0-7]: %s\n", pat_msg);
>> }
>> @@ -238,9 +239,13 @@ void pat_init(void)
>> rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, boot_pat_state);
>>
>> wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
>> + pr_info("about to write pat %0llx\n", pat);
>>
>> if (boot_cpu)
>> pat_init_cache_modes();
>> +
>> + rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
>> + printk(KERN_INFO "PAT read: cpu %d, 0x%Lx\n", smp_processor_id(),
>> pat);
>> }
>>
>>
>> Then boot is fine, and PAT values are as follows.
>>
>>
>> # dmesg|grep -i "pat "
>> [ 0.000000] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.000000] read pat 0
>> [ 0.000000] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.000000] PAT read: cpu 0, 0x0
>> [ 0.320559] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.320876] read pat 0
>> [ 0.321090] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.321260] PAT read: cpu 5, 0x0
>> [ 0.321403] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.321818] read pat 0
>> [ 0.322033] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.322205] PAT read: cpu 6, 0x0
>> [ 0.322334] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.322417] read pat 0
>> [ 0.322479] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.322573] PAT read: cpu 0, 0x0
>> [ 0.322703] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.323012] read pat 0
>> [ 0.323228] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.323400] PAT read: cpu 1, 0x0
>> [ 0.323537] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.323833] read pat 0
>> [ 0.324055] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.324224] PAT read: cpu 7, 0x0
>> [ 0.324362] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.324662] read pat 0
>> [ 0.324877] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.325048] PAT read: cpu 2, 0x0
>> [ 0.325185] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.325483] read pat 0
>> [ 0.325695] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.325863] PAT read: cpu 4, 0x0
>> [ 0.325997] about to write pat 7010600070106
>> [ 0.326288] read pat 0
>> [ 0.326507] PAT configuration [0-7]: UC UC UC UC UC UC UC UC
>> [ 0.326677] PAT read: cpu 3, 0x0
>
>Okay, so VMWare doesn't seem to return the correct PAT MSR value.
>
>I suggest you try "nopat" as kernel option. This should disable all the
>PAT handling and VMWare can't wreck the kernel this way.
>
>I'll write a patch which detects this VMWare bug by checking the PAT
>value after writing it.
>
>Thanks for reporting that case,
>
>
>Juergen
>
>
OK, my VMWare works with "nopat" option.
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