Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails without !panic_on_oops

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Mar 12 2016 - 10:31:20 EST



* Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +bool ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
> + struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
> +{
> + WARN(1, "unsafe MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x%x",
> + (unsigned int)regs->cx);

Please make this WARN_ONCE(). There's no point in locking up the system with
WARN() spam, should this trigger frequently.

> + WARN(1, "unsafe MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x%x (tried to write 0x%08x%08x)\n",
> + (unsigned int)regs->cx,
> + (unsigned int)regs->dx, (unsigned int)regs->ax);

Ditto.

Thanks,

Ingo