On 06/23/2009 01:20 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
Linux tries to disable the flush filter on all AMD K8 CPUs. Since KVM
does not handle the needed MSR, the injected #GP will panic the Linux
kernel. Ignore setting of the HWCR.FFDIS bit in this MSR to let Linux
boot with an AMD K8 family guest CPU.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara<andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 5a66bb9..4c19c24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -796,6 +796,13 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
case MSR_EFER:
set_efer(vcpu, data);
break;
+ case MSR_K7_HWCR:
+ if (data != 0x40) {
+ pr_unimpl(vcpu, "unimplemented HWCR wrmsr: 0x%llx\n",
+ data);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ break;
Won't that printk() if writing a zero? Just mask out that bit.
I also see some HWCR handling in svm.c, can probably be removed.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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