linux-kernel - Re: commit 3c2e7f7de3 (KVM use NPT page attributes) causes boot failures

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Message-ID: <55E6273D.6080701@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2015 06:31:25 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit 3c2e7f7de3 (KVM use NPT page attributes) causes boot
 failures



On 09/01/2015 09:56 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2015.09.01 at 21:00 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>
>> Did it trigger the BUG()/BUG_ON() in mtrr2protval()/fallback_mtrr_type()?
>> If yes, could you please print the actual value out?
>
> It is the BUG() in fallback_mtrr_type(). I changed it to a printk and
> it prints 1 for the value of mtrr.
>
>   MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB     1
>

Then I suspect pat is not enabled in your box, could you please check
CONFIG_X86_PAT is selected in your .config file, pat is shown in
/proc/cpuid, "nopat" kernel parameter is used, and dmesg | grep PAT.

I will post a fix if the suspect is right.
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