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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] x86/fpu/xstate: Add more diagnostic information on inconsistent xstate sizes
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On 4/11/2023 6:21 PM, Fenghua Yu wrote:
>
> First of all, max_features is shown already.

Yes.

> Kernel_size from CPUID.0xd.0x1:EBX takes XCR0 | IA32_XSS as input.
> Platform may take wrong XCR0 or IA32_XSS and get wrong kernel_size. The > purpose of this patch is to provide more debug info to help debug
> platform/kernel issue. So instead of a whole max_features, xgetbv() to
> get XCR0 and xfeatures_mask_supervisor() to get IA32_XSS provides more
> debug info in case platform may have issue in XCR0 or IA32_XSS.
>
> In other words, splitting max_features into XCR0 and IA32_XSS and
> showing them individually provide more useful debug info than one single
> max_features value. >
> Does it make sense?

Hmm, I don't get it. I don't think whether the microcode takes those
register values wrong or miscalculates the size does matter here.

print_xstate_offset_size() or something can decode the mask and readily
shows off how it was calculated here. Then, probably that's it.

>> I still expect some acknowledgment of what is coded here for the
>> kernel calculation details.
>
> The kernel calculation is shown in
> +        print_xstate_offset_size();
> +        pr_info("x86/fpu: total size: %u bytes\n", size);
>
> Isn't that detailed enough to show offset and size of each xstate and
> sum of sizes?
>
> After that,
> +    pr_info("x86/fpu: kernel_size from CPUID.0xd.0x%x:EBX: %u bytes\n",
> +               compacted ? 1 : 0, kernel_size);
> shows how kernel_size is calculated from CPUID?
>
> Using the above debug info, a real platform CPUID issue is shown clearly.
>
> What other details are needed?

I recall it was also asked to show which features are off or mismatched
as compared to the CPU calculation. I'm not so sure about it.

Thanks,
Chang

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