Intel CPUs having Turbo Boost feature implement an MSR to provide a control interface via rdmsr/wrmsr instructions. One could detect the presence of this feature by issuing one of these instructions and handling the #GP exception which is generated in case the referenced MSR is not implemented by the CPU. KVM's vCPU model behaves exactly as a real CPU in this case by injecting a fault when MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL is called (which KVM does not support). However, some operating systems use this register during an early boot stage in which their kernel is not capable of handling #GP correctly, causing #DP and finally a triple fault effectively resetting the vCPU. This patch implements a dummy handler for MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL to avoid the crashes. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Bilunov <kmeaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index c805cf4..d0a5b4b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -2314,6 +2314,7 @@ int kvm_get_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) case MSR_AMD64_NB_CFG: case MSR_FAM10H_MMIO_CONF_BASE: case MSR_AMD64_BU_CFG2: + case MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL: msr_info->data = 0; break; case MSR_K7_EVNTSEL0 ... MSR_K7_EVNTSEL3: -- 2.8.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
