Re: [PATCH] thermal: intel: Don't set HFI status bit to 1

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Dec 14 2022 - 08:53:38 EST


On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 4:16 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 6:07 PM Srinivas Pandruvada
> <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When CPU doesn't support HFI (Hardware Feedback Interface), don't include
> > BIT 26 in the mask to prevent clearing. otherwise this results in:
> > unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x1b1
> > (tried to write 0x0000000004000aa8)
> > at rIP: 0xffffffff8b8559fe (throttle_active_work+0xbe/0x1b0)
> >
> > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 6fe1e64b6026 ("thermal: intel: Prevent accidental clearing of HFI status")
> > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> You can add my tested-by as well, it seems to fix the issue.
>
> Of course, it could be that I just didn't happen to trigger the
> throttling in my test just now, so that testing is pretty limited, but
> at least from a very quick check it seems good.

I've applied the patch for 6.2-rc1, thanks!