linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly

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Message-Id: <1418723914-9736-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:58:34 +0100
From:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akataria@...are.com, jongman.heo@...sung.com
Cc:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly

VMWare seems not to emulate the PAT MSR correctly: reaeding
MSR_IA32_CR_PAT returns 0 even after writing another value to it.

Detect this bug and don't use the read value if it is 0.

Commit bd809af16e3ab1f8d55b3e2928c47c67e2a865d2 ("x86: Enable PAT to
use cache mode translation tables") triggers this VMWare bug when the
kernel is booted as a VMWare guest.

Reported-by: Jongman Heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Tested-by: Jongman Heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index edf299c..7ac6869 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -234,8 +234,13 @@ void pat_init(void)
 	      PAT(4, WB) | PAT(5, WC) | PAT(6, UC_MINUS) | PAT(7, UC);
 
 	/* Boot CPU check */
-	if (!boot_pat_state)
+	if (!boot_pat_state) {
 		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, boot_pat_state);
+		if (!boot_pat_state) {
+			pat_disable("PAT read returns always zero, disabled.");
+			return;
+		}
+	}
 
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
 
-- 
2.1.2

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