Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:39:02 -0400 From: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> To: <alc@freebsd.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Erratum 383 crashes FreeBSD 9-Stable Message-ID: <4F64E856.3040303@cs.stonybrook.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAJUyCcME8YgJkCmfCodJba0noKyGr8RMnJwSMrT_fECj8U7d=Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F64C50F.70409@cs.stonybrook.edu> <4F64C57F.6040403@cs.stonybrook.edu> <CAJUyCcME8YgJkCmfCodJba0noKyGr8RMnJwSMrT_fECj8U7d=Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/17/12 15:21, Alan Cox wrote:
> When the FreeBSD kernel detects that it is running on an affected
> processor, it automatically enables the recommended workaround. However,
> because you are running within a virtual machine, the automatic detection
> may not be working. Alternatively, you may be using a newer processor
> revision that still suffers from the bug, but the kernel doesn't enable the
> workaround for. Can you tell us how the FreeBSD guest sees the underlying
> processor, e.g., the first few lines of dmesg from the guest?
>
> Alan
>
I am currently passing "-cpu
Opteron_G3,+3dnowext,+3dnow,+3dnowprefetch,+cmp_legacy" to KVM at
libvirtd's suggestion. I assume this is why the workaround is not being
triggered.
# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 15 22:48:55 UTC 2012
root@zfsguru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OFED amd64
module_register: module pci/mps already exists!
Module pci/mps failed to register: 17
CPU: AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) (3210.85-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf61 Family = f Model = 6 Stepping = 1
Features=0x783fbfd<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
Features2=0x80802001<SSE3,CX16,POPCNT,HV>
AMD Features=0xe0100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
AMD Features2=0x1e7<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch>
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