linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 83 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c:446 ksgxd+0x1b7/0x1d0

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Message-ID: <33c2a495-13ad-97ac-f2c2-4096cf8f5b58@molgen.mpg.de>
Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:33:07 +0200
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 83 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c:446
 ksgxd+0x1b7/0x1d0

Dear Dave,


Thank you for your reply.

Am 23.08.22 um 18:32 schrieb Dave Hansen:
> On 8/23/22 06:48, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>>> I'm suspecting either a BIOS problem.  Reinette (cc'd) also thought this
>>>> might be a case of the SGX initialization getting a bit too far along
>>>> when it should have been disabled.
>>>>
>>>> We had some bugs where we didn't stop fast enough after spitting out the
>>>> "SGX Launch Control is locked..." errors.
>>
>> Let’s hope it’s something known to you.
> 
> Thanks for the extra debug info.  Unfortunately, nothing is really
> sticking out as an obvious problem.
> 
> The EREMOVE return codes would be interesting to know, as well as an
> idea what the physical addresses are that fail and the _counts_ of how
> many pages get sanitized versus fail.

Is there a knob to print out this information? Or way to get this 
information using ftrace? I’d like to avoid rebuilding the Linux kernel.

> But, I don't really have a theory about what could be going on yet.

Kind regards,

Paul