Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm: fix incomplete page-table invalidation with TCE

From: Andrew Cooper

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 04:24:43 EST


On 05/10/2026 8:29 am, Lance Yang wrote:
>>
>> Did you repro any bug related to this? The functionality is perhaps
>> underspecified in the AMD manual.
>
> TBH, I don't have a reproducer yet. Just LLM stumbled upon this while
> I was investigating another memory corruption issue [1].
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/arY1Wq6R9OY20ans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/#t

What hardware are you running on?

That looks like the Zen5 issue, for which you want either the latest
microcode out of linux-firmware and/or
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261002211617.1001617-1-bp@xxxxxxxxxx

TCE is a no-op in Zen1 and later, so unless you're on older hardware, it
won't be that.

~Andrew