Re: IOMMU+DMAR causing NMIs-s (was: 4.7-rc6: NMI in intel_idle on HP Proliant G6)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:31:02AM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > > Bisecting kernel configs shows that it's DMAR+IOMMU. When it is 
> > > > activated, there is high probability of NMI-s in random places.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, strange. But nothing could really surprise when you have an HP
> > > BIOS.
> > 
> > BIOS P64 01/22/2015. There seems to be a newer 2015.08.16 BIOS out but 
> > the release notes only describe updated CPU microcode for security 
> > reasons.
> 
> It is probably something HP is selling as a "feature" and not a BIOS
> bug.

Well, based on the date, it should be the microcode-level fix for this:
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Domas-The-Memory-Sinkhole-Unleashing-An-x86-Design-Flaw-Allowing-Universal-Privilege-Escalation-wp.pdf

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