linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel boot for AMD CPUs

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Date:   Sat, 04 Feb 2023 10:09:00 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
        Usama Arif <usama.arif@...edance.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        arjan@...ux.intel.com
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        hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        paulmck@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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        pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de, fam.zheng@...edance.com,
        punit.agrawal@...edance.com, simon.evans@...edance.com,
        liangma@...ngbit.com, Mario Limonciello <Mario.Limonciello@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel boot for AMD CPUs

On Fri, 2023-02-03 at 13:48 -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> [    3.204580] [Firmware Bug]: CPU0: APIC id mismatch. Firmware: 0
> APIC: 2


Could it just be that some processors have CPUID leaves above 0xb but
don't actually support 0xb?

What does this do?

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1578,6 +1578,18 @@ void __init native_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	    cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_GUEST_STATE_ENCRYPT))
 		do_parallel_bringup = false;
 
+	if (do_parallel_bringup) {
+		/* Check that CPUID 0x0B really does look sane. */
+		unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
+
+		cpuid_count(0xb, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+		printk("CPUID 0xB level 0: %x %x %x %x\n", eax, ebx, ecx, edx);
+		if (!eax && !ebx) {
+			pr_info("Disabling parallel bringup because CPUID 0xb looks untrustworthy\n");
+			do_parallel_bringup = false;
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (do_parallel_bringup &&
 	    boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_NO_PARALLEL_BRINGUP)) {
 		pr_info("Disabling parallel bringup due to CPU bugs\n");


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