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SubjectRe: [tip:x86/alternatives] [x86/alternatives] ee8962082a: WARNING:at_arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c:#do_clear_cpu_cap
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 04:08:18PM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> we really don't do any manual change recently, however, per your reminding,
> we rerun tests on both ee8962082a and its parent v6.9-rc3 again.
>
> while we made original report, we always saw below for both commits.
> "x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS"
>
> by rerun today, we cannot see it again, on both commits.

Yeah, from the last dump you shouldn't be seeing it.

> then for ee8962082a, the reported
> WARNING:at_arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c:#do_clear_cpu_cap
> disappeared also while no "x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS"

Yeah, it does feel like something underneath the OS has changed/is
changing for this to happen.

> we are using kexec to boot into kernel, and the kernel images keep same,
> so we are sure this strage phenomenon is not caused by kernel build.

Hmm, kexec won't go through BIOS so I can imagine if the kernel has left
FEAT_CTL in some weird state... but then if it has been locked, nothing
should change it anymore.

> now we doubt it's really a bios issue, we found another similar machine,
> which also show "x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS", but after
> several rounds of cold reboot, the message disappeared, too.

If you see that again, please run my branch with the debug patch - that
should at least tell us what's weird in FEAT_CTL.

> we will investigate this BIOS further and avoid this kind of misleading
> report in the future.
>
> sorry again :(

No worries, thanks for testing kernels and thanks Sean too. :-)

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Boris.

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