Re: random insta-reboots on AMD Phenom II

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.09.30 at 13:53 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:29:03PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:11:37PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 04:05:16AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > > Any hints how to debug this?
> > > 
> > > Do
> > > rdmsr -a 0xc0010015
> > > as root and paste it here.
> > 
> > 1000010
> > 1000010
> > 1000010
> > 1000010
> > 1000010
> > 1000010
> > 
> > on both 4.13.4 and 4.14-rc2+.
> 
> Boot into -rc2+ and do as root:
> 
> # wrmsr -a 0xc0010015 0x1000018
> 
> If the issue gets fixed then Mr. Luto better revert the new lazy TLB
> flushing fun'n'games for 4.14 before it is too late and that kernel
> releases b0rked.

The issue does get fixed by setting TlbCacheDis to 1. I have been
running it for the last few weeks without any problems. 
Performance is not affected at all. So it might by easier to just set
the bit for older AMD processors as a boot quirk.
Changing the TLB code so late might not be a good idea...

-- 
Markus