On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:06:31PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The upcoming ring3 mwait stuff can add its magic to tweak that MSR into > this function. > > Stick the call at the end of init_scattered_cpuid_features() for now. I > still need to figure out a proper place for it. So Thomas and I discussed this more on IRC and I think we can get rid of the MSR iterating in scattered.c and integrate both the R3 MWAIT and CPUID faulting like this: --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c index fcd484d2bb03..5c38a85af2e7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c @@ -452,6 +457,39 @@ static void intel_bsp_resume(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) init_intel_energy_perf(c); } +static void init_misc_enables(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + u64 val, misc_en; + + if (rdmsrl_safe(MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES, &misc_en)) + return; + + misc_en &= ~MSR_MISC_ENABLES_CPUID_FAULT_ENABLE; + + if (!rdmsrl_safe(MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, &val)) { + if (val & PLATINFO_CPUID_FAULT_BIT) + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULT); + } + + wrmsrl(MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES, misc_en); + this_cpu_write(msr_misc_features_enables_shadow, misc_en); +} + static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { unsigned int l2 = 0; @@ -565,6 +603,8 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) detect_vmx_virtcap(c); init_intel_energy_perf(c); + + init_misc_enables(c); } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 --- Please redo your patchset and add the detection to init_intel() like above. Also, let's call that MSR mask MSR_MISC_ENABLES_CPUID_FAULT_ENABLE like the rest of the bits in msr-index.h Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html