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Date:      Mon, 17 May 2021 06:33:19 +0000
From:      Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>, Chris Knight <stryqx@gmail.com>,  "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root
Message-ID:  <PSAP153MB0440A1511904E54767BF5344BB2D9@PSAP153MB0440.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
In-Reply-To: <YKIDX/PjOlNc%2BtMa@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <CAHgj5TTKdiOU4bRu3SCBwKqnQaMqxUFynodh5MLBE7%2BycBiPYw@mail.gmail.com> <SG2P153MB0208B4185C3EB54120F10E74BB030@SG2P153MB0208.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> <c6013e67-4a37-43e1-4452-568d3ef6e5a7@omnilan.de> <ef85f9bb-ad8b-978e-da65-c887e8e8498e@omnilan.de> <PSAP153MB0440FD09AD1981FD569B7246BB2D9@PSAP153MB0440.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> <YKIDX/PjOlNc%2BtMa@kib.kiev.ua>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 1:47 PM
> To: Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>; Chris Knight
> <stryqx@gmail.com>; freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root
>=20
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 04:12:20AM +0000, Wei Hu wrote:
> > Copy Kib  who was the author of PTI and other relate patches.
> >
> > This looks to be caused by Meltdown and Spectre mitigation patches
> > which were checked into head couple years ago. See this link for detail=
s about
> these patches:
> > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwik=
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> > .freebsd.org%2FSpeculativeExecutionVulnerabilities&amp;data=3D04%7C01%7=
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> >
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> 86f14
> >
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> >
> > The amd64  patches also caused problems on Hyper-V (triple fault) when
> > vmbus and other HyperV drivers (netvsc, storvsc etc) were loaded
> > separately. The workaround for this on amd64 is either build these
> > Hyper-V modules into the kernel or completely disable mitigation by
> > setting vm.pmap.pti=3D"0" in /boot/loader.conf in the affect FreeBSD gu=
ests.
> >
> For amd64 I posted the patch to supposedly fix the issue, you did not
> responded.
>=20
I am sorry I might have missed your review request. Would you please let me=
=20
know the link to the patch or the commit if you already have checked in? I =
will
need to test and inform the parties who got affected.=20

For the issue on i386, any plan to fix it.

Thanks,
Wei



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