This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/AMD: Apply erratum 665 on machines without a BIOS fix to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-amd-apply-erratum-665-on-machines-without-a-bios-fix.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d1992996753132e2dafe955cccb2fb0714d3cfc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emanuel Czirai <icanrealizeum@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 07:35:50 +0200 Subject: x86/AMD: Apply erratum 665 on machines without a BIOS fix From: Emanuel Czirai <icanrealizeum@xxxxxxxxx> commit d1992996753132e2dafe955cccb2fb0714d3cfc4 upstream. AMD F12h machines have an erratum which can cause DIV/IDIV to behave unpredictably. The workaround is to set MSRC001_1029[31] but sometimes there is no BIOS update containing that workaround so let's do it ourselves unconditionally. It is simple enough. [ Borislav: Wrote commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Emanuel Czirai <icanrealizeum@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yaowu Xu <yaowu@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160902053550.18097-1-bp@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -669,6 +669,17 @@ static void init_amd_gh(struct cpuinfo_x set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_AMD_TLB_MMATCH); } +#define MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG 0xC0011029 + +static void init_amd_ln(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + /* + * Apply erratum 665 fix unconditionally so machines without a BIOS + * fix work. + */ + msr_set_bit(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG, 31); +} + static void init_amd_bd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { u64 value; @@ -726,6 +737,7 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 case 6: init_amd_k7(c); break; case 0xf: init_amd_k8(c); break; case 0x10: init_amd_gh(c); break; + case 0x12: init_amd_ln(c); break; case 0x15: init_amd_bd(c); break; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from icanrealizeum@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/x86-amd-apply-erratum-665-on-machines-without-a-bios-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html