From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Booting Fedora kernels with -cpu max hangs very early in boot. Disabling
the la57 CPUID bit fixes the problem. git bisect traced the regression to
commit 213ff024a2f92020290296cb9dc29c2af3d4a221 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
Author: Lara Lazier <laramglazier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jul 21 17:26:50 2021 +0200
target/i386: Added consistency checks for CR4
All MBZ bits in CR4 must be zero. (APM2 15.5)
Added reserved bitmask and added checks in both
helper_vmrun and helper_write_crN.
Signed-off-by: Lara Lazier <laramglazier@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210721152651.14683-2-laramglazier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In this commit CR4_RESERVED_MASK is missing CR4_LA57_MASK and
two others. Adding this lets Fedora kernels boot once again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210831175033.175584-1-berrange@redhat.com>
[Removed VMXE/SMXE, matching the commit message. - Paolo]
Fixes: 213ff024a2 ("target/i386: Added consistency checks for CR4", 2021-07-22)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
target/i386/cpu.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
index 6c50d3ab4f..21b33fbe2e 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ typedef enum X86Seg {
| CR4_DE_MASK | CR4_PSE_MASK | CR4_PAE_MASK \
| CR4_MCE_MASK | CR4_PGE_MASK | CR4_PCE_MASK \
| CR4_OSFXSR_MASK | CR4_OSXMMEXCPT_MASK |CR4_UMIP_MASK \
+ | CR4_LA57_MASK \
| CR4_FSGSBASE_MASK | CR4_PCIDE_MASK | CR4_OSXSAVE_MASK \
| CR4_SMEP_MASK | CR4_SMAP_MASK | CR4_PKE_MASK | CR4_PKS_MASK))
--
2.31.1
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 05:26:57PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
>
> Booting Fedora kernels with -cpu max hangs very early in boot. Disabling
> the la57 CPUID bit fixes the problem. git bisect traced the regression to
>
> commit 213ff024a2f92020290296cb9dc29c2af3d4a221 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
> Author: Lara Lazier <laramglazier@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed Jul 21 17:26:50 2021 +0200
>
> target/i386: Added consistency checks for CR4
>
> All MBZ bits in CR4 must be zero. (APM2 15.5)
> Added reserved bitmask and added checks in both
> helper_vmrun and helper_write_crN.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lara Lazier <laramglazier@gmail.com>
> Message-Id: <20210721152651.14683-2-laramglazier@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>
> In this commit CR4_RESERVED_MASK is missing CR4_LA57_MASK and
> two others. Adding this lets Fedora kernels boot once again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
I tested it again and it still works:
$ LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg LIBGUESTFS_HV=$PWD/qemu-system-x86_64 libguestfs-test-tool
...
===== TEST FINISHED OK =====
(versus without the patch where it appears to hang in very early kernel)
Rich.
> Message-Id: <20210831175033.175584-1-berrange@redhat.com>
> [Removed VMXE/SMXE, matching the commit message. - Paolo]
> Fixes: 213ff024a2 ("target/i386: Added consistency checks for CR4", 2021-07-22)
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> target/i386/cpu.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
> index 6c50d3ab4f..21b33fbe2e 100644
> --- a/target/i386/cpu.h
> +++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
> @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ typedef enum X86Seg {
> | CR4_DE_MASK | CR4_PSE_MASK | CR4_PAE_MASK \
> | CR4_MCE_MASK | CR4_PGE_MASK | CR4_PCE_MASK \
> | CR4_OSFXSR_MASK | CR4_OSXMMEXCPT_MASK |CR4_UMIP_MASK \
> + | CR4_LA57_MASK \
> | CR4_FSGSBASE_MASK | CR4_PCIDE_MASK | CR4_OSXSAVE_MASK \
> | CR4_SMEP_MASK | CR4_SMAP_MASK | CR4_PKE_MASK | CR4_PKS_MASK))
>
> --
> 2.31.1
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