linux-kernel - Linux 5.13+ as Xen dom0 crashes on Ryzen CPU (ucode loading related?)

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Message-ID: <YT9I+Xs9wOPVCIVd@mail-itl>
Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:50:00 +0200
From:   Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
        <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Subject: Linux 5.13+ as Xen dom0 crashes on Ryzen CPU (ucode loading related?)

Hi,

Since 5.13, the Xen (PV) dom0 crashes on boot, before even printing the
kernel version.
Test environment:
 - Xen 4.14.2
 - AMD Ryzen 5 4500U (reported also on AMD Ryzen 7 4750U)
 - Linux 5.13.13, confirmed also on 5.14

The crash happens only if the initramfs has earlycpio with microcode.
I don't have a serial console, but I've got a photo with crash message
(from Xen, Linux doesn't managed to print anything):
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/726704/133084966-5038f37e-001b-4688-9f90-83d09be3dc2d.jpg

Transcription of some of it:

    mapping kernel into physical memory
    about to get started
    (XEN) Pagetable walk from ffffffff82810888:
    (XEN)  L4[0x1ff] = 0000000332815067 0000000000002815
    (XEN)  L3[0x1fe] = 0000000332816067 0000000000002816
    (XEN)  L2[0x014] = 0000000334018067 0000000000004018
    (XEN)  L1[0x010] = 0000000332810067 0000000000002810
    (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S: fault at ffff82d04033e790 x86_64/entry.S#domain_crash_page_fault
    (XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
    (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.14.2  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
    (XEN) CPU:    0
    (XEN) RIP:    e033:[<0000000000000000>]

I've bisected it down to the commit a799c2bd29d19c565f37fa038b31a0a1d44d0e4d

    x86/setup: Consolidate early memory reservations

    The early reservations of memory areas used by the firmware, bootloader,
    kernel text and data are spread over setup_arch(). Moreover, some of them
    happen *after* memblock allocations, e.g trim_platform_memory_ranges() and
    trim_low_memory_range() are called after reserve_real_mode() that allocates
    memory.

    There was no corruption of these memory regions because memblock always
    allocates memory either from the end of memory (in top-down mode) or above
    the kernel image (in bottom-up mode). However, the bottom up mode is going
    to be updated to span the entire memory [1] to avoid limitations caused by
    KASLR.

    Consolidate early memory reservations in a dedicated function to improve
    robustness against future changes. Having the early reservations in one
    place also makes it clearer what memory must be reserved before memblock
    allocations are allowed.

    Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
    Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
    Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
    Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
    Link: [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201217201214.3414100-2-guro@fb.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302100406.22059-2-rppt@kernel.org

Since this seems to affect Xen boot only, I'm copying xen-devel too.

Any ideas?

-- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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