Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:10:25PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> buuuuuut anyway, it looks like latest AMD firmware issue:
> 
> [root@amd-pike-07 ~]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/version
> 0x6000822
> [root@amd-pike-07 perf]# ./perf test 18
> 18: Test breakpoint overflow signal handler                  : Ok
> 
> [root@amd-pike-07 perf]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/version
> 0x6000832
> [root@amd-pike-07 perf]# ./perf test 18
> 18: Test breakpoint overflow signal handler                  : FAILED!
> 
> 
> [root@amd-pike-07 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor       : 7
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 21
> model           : 2
> model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 3380
> stepping        : 0
> microcode       : 0x6000832
> 
> SNIP

Whoops.

Can you please confirm with your debugging code that with version
0x6000822 EFLAGS.RF is set and with 0x6000832 it isn't when running the
aforementioned test?

Thanks.

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