linux-kernel - [PATCH] [v2] x86, fpu: do not BUG

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:45:51 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [PATCH] [v2] x86, fpu: do not BUG_ON() in early FPU code


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

I don't think it is really possible to have a system where CPUID
enumerates support for XSAVE but that it does not have FP/SSE
(they are "legacy" features and always present).

But, I did manage to hit this case in qemu when I enabled its
somewhat shaky XSAVE support.  The bummer is that the FPU is set
up before we parse the command-line or have *any* console support
including earlyprintk.  That turned what should have been an easy
thing to debug in to a bit more of an odyssey.

So a BUG() here is worthless.  All it does it guarantee that
if/when we hit this case we have an empty console.  So, remove
the BUG() and try to limp along by disabling XSAVE and trying to
continue.  Add a comment on why we are doing this, and also add
a common "out_disable" path for leaving fpu__init_system_xstate().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
---

 b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~x86-fpu-do-not-BUG_ON-early arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c~x86-fpu-do-not-BUG_ON-early	2016-07-20 12:11:42.226323250 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c	2016-07-20 12:29:49.574991502 -0700
@@ -714,8 +714,13 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void
 	xfeatures_mask = eax + ((u64)edx << 32);
 
 	if ((xfeatures_mask & XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE) != XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE) {
+		/*
+		 * This indicates that something really unexpected happened
+		 * with the enumeration.  Disable XSAVE and try to continue
+		 * booting without it.  This is too early to BUG().
+		 */
 		pr_err("x86/fpu: FP/SSE not present amongst the CPU's xstate features: 0x%llx.\n", xfeatures_mask);
-		BUG();
+		goto out_disable;
 	}
 
 	xfeatures_mask &= fpu__get_supported_xfeatures_mask();
@@ -723,11 +728,8 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void
 	/* Enable xstate instructions to be able to continue with initialization: */
 	fpu__init_cpu_xstate();
 	err = init_xstate_size();
-	if (err) {
-		/* something went wrong, boot without any XSAVE support */
-		fpu__init_disable_system_xstate();
-		return;
-	}
+	if (err)
+		goto out_disable;
 
 	/*
 	 * Update info used for ptrace frames; use standard-format size and no
@@ -744,6 +746,11 @@ void __init fpu__init_system_xstate(void
 		xfeatures_mask,
 		fpu_kernel_xstate_size,
 		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES) ? "compacted" : "standard");
+	return;
+
+out_disable:
+	/* something went wrong, try to boot without any XSAVE support */
+	fpu__init_disable_system_xstate();
 }
 
 /*
_