Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Fix bogus value returned for MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS

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 On 09/01/2010 11:49 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01.09.2010, at 09:34, Avi Kivity wrote:

The returned value is completely bogus, and sets reserved bits.
Return zero instead.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    5 +----
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 1cbf168..a2c03f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1641,10 +1641,7 @@ int kvm_get_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 *pdata)
		data = vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr;
		break;
	case MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS:
-		/* TSC increment by tick */
-		data = 1000ULL;
-		/* CPU multiplier */
-		data |= (((uint64_t)4ULL)<<  40);
+		data = 0;
		break;
	case MSR_EFER:
		data = vcpu->arch.efer;

This is the respective code snippet from xnu:

         /*
          * Get the TSC increment.  The TSC is incremented by this
          * on every bus tick.  Calculate the TSC conversion factors
          * to and from nano-seconds.
          */
         if (cpuid_info()->cpuid_family == CPU_FAMILY_PENTIUM_M) {
                 uint64_t        prfsts;

                 prfsts = rdmsr64(IA32_PERF_STS);
                 tscGranularity = (uint32_t)bitfield(prfsts, 44, 40);
                 N_by_2_bus_ratio = prfsts&  bit(46);

         } else {
                 panic("rtclock_init: unknown CPU family: 0x%X\n",
                         cpuid_info()->cpuid_family);
         }

         if (N_by_2_bus_ratio)
                 tscFCvtt2n = busFCvtt2n * 2 / (uint64_t)tscGranularity;
         else
                 tscFCvtt2n = busFCvtt2n / (uint64_t)tscGranularity;

         tscFreq = ((1 * Giga)<<  32) / tscFCvtt2n;
         tscFCvtn2t = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL / tscFCvtt2n;


So by passing in 0 here, you effectively make that code divide something by 0 which results in a panic.



Right. Searching again I find that this is actually documented, (under MSR_PERF_STATU
s instead of IA32_PERF_STATUS).  I'll just drop this patch.


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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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