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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 2021 16:41:16 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Page fault in _mca_init during startup
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 07:53:09PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:40 PM Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 07:01:30PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:59 PM Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Do you have INVARIANTS enabled?  If not, I am curious if enabling them
> > > > would convert that rare page fault into rare "CPU %d has more MC banks"
> > > > assert.
> > > >
> > > > Also might be the output of the
> > > > # for x in $(jot $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) 0) ; do cpucontrol -m 0x179
> > > > /dev/cpuctl$x; done
> > > > command will show the issue (0x179 is the MCG_CAP MSR).
> > > > You need to load cpuctl(4) if it is not loaded yet.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't have INVARIANTS enabled, and I can't enable it on the production
> > > servers.  However, I can turn those three KASSERTs into VERIFYs and see
> > > what happens.  Here is what your command shows on the server that
> > panicked:
> > > $ for x in $(jot $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) 0) ; do sudo cpucontrol -m 0x179
> > > /dev/cpuctl$x; done | uniq -c
> > >   16 MSR 0x179: 0x00000000 0x0f000c14
> > >   16 MSR 0x179: 0x00000000 0x0f000814
> >
> > It probably explains it, but it would be more telling if you left the
> > output as is, so that we can see which CPUs have MCG_CMCI_P (10) bit set.
> >
> 
> I didn't sort them, so the first 16 have bit 10 set and the second 16
> don't.
> 
> 
> >
> > I suspect that your machine has two sockets, and processor in one socket
> > has CPUs reporting MCG_CMCI_P, while other processor does not. Your SMP
> > is not quite symmetric, perhaps processors were from different bins?
> >
> 
> Could be.  Is there some MSR that reports a more specific version number?
There are CPUID %eax=1 values returned in %eax, but then it requires
some interpretation.
	# cpucontrol -i 1 /dev/cpuctl$x
for $x iterating over the cpus.



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