Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86, CPU: Fix show_msr MSR accessing function

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
>
> There's no real reason why, when showing the MSRs on a CPU at boottime,
> we should be using the AMD-specific variant. Simply use the generic safe
> one which handles #GPs just fine.
>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> index 82f29e70d058..232fba2d54c9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static void __cpuinit __print_cpu_msr(void)
>                index_max = msr_range_array[i].max;
>
>                for (index = index_min; index < index_max; index++) {
> -                       if (rdmsrl_amd_safe(index, &val))
> +                       if (rdmsrl_safe(index, &val))
>                                continue;
>                        printk(KERN_INFO " MSR%08x: %016llx\n", index, val);
>                }
> --

can you double check if the range will need special passcode ?



        { 0x00000000, 0x00000418},
        { 0xc0000000, 0xc000040b},
        { 0xc0010000, 0xc0010142},
        { 0xc0011000, 0xc001103b},

passcode should be
       gprs[7] = 0x9c5a203a;

Thanks

Yinghai
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