linux-kernel - Re: 4.15-rc6 PTI regression: L1 TLB mismatch MCE on Athlon64

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801030001580.1957@nanos>
Date:   Wed, 3 Jan 2018 00:07:53 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
cc:     Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>,
        Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: 4.15-rc6 PTI regression: L1 TLB mismatch MCE on Athlon64

On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:49:16PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > This is on a socket 939 Athlon64 3500+, with PTI enabled.
> 
> LOL.
> 
> > [  316.384669] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> > [  316.384698] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action required.
> > [  316.384719] [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (f:2f:2) MC1_STATUS[-|CE|-|-|AddrV]: 0x9400000000010011
> > [  316.384742] [Hardware Error]: Error Addr: 0x0000ffff81e000e0
> 
> That's the [47:12] slice of the virtual address which it tried to execute.
> 
> According to our map in mm.txt:
> 
> ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff (=43 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor
> 
> vs
> 
> ffff81e000e0...
> 
> which makes me think: WTF now?!
> 
> I don't see any hypervisor happening in dmesg...

Meelis, can you please enable CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP. If you select M then
please load the resulting module 'debug_pagetables'.

Then please do the following from a shell:

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/* >t.txt

and provide the output.

Thanks,

	tglx