* [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Don't print reset reason in VMs
@ 2026-11-04 1:30 Jason Andryuk
2026-11-04 8:20 ` Juergen Gross
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jason Andryuk @ 2026-11-04 1:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86,
H. Peter Anvin, Mario Limonciello, Yazen Ghannam
Cc: xen-devel, Ariadne Conill, Sean Christopherson, Juergen Gross,
Jason Andryuk, stable, Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel
print_s5_reset_status_mmio() expects to read FCH MMIO on baremetal. VMs
don't have emulated FCH registers, so there is nothing to check. Add an
early exit when running on a hypervisor.
The real motivation is Xen PV domUs can't boot on Zen CPUs. PV domUs
PTE contain system physical addresses - they don't have concept of guest
physical addresses. domUs can only map physical addresses they are
assigned, so a domU fails to map the FCH MMIO addresses. However
set_pte() does not return failure, so ioremap() returns a pointer while
the PTEs are unpopulated. print_s5_reset_status_mmio() faults when
reading through the pointer, breaking the boot. This change fixes Xen
PV domUs booting on Zen CPUs.
dom0 can map the FCH MMIO, but it has X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR set. With
this change, it no longer prints the reset reason.
Fixes: ab8131028710 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Print the reason for the last reset")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
---
dom0 could work, but that would require a xen_initial_domain() check.
I've wondered about a different approach: We can't directly check for a
device for the FCH_PM_BASE memory, but maybe we could check for a PCI
ISA Bridge with PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD. That might be close enough to
indicate real hardware? But it would still be a heuristic, so I'm not
sure how much better that would be.
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index 40463bad1078..580ccc2ce5fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -1357,7 +1357,8 @@ static __init int print_s5_reset_status_mmio(void)
u32 value;
int i;
- if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_ZEN))
+ if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_ZEN) ||
+ cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
return 0;
addr = ioremap(FCH_PM_BASE + FCH_PM_S5_RESET_STATUS, sizeof(value));
--
2.34.1
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* Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Don't print reset reason in VMs
2026-11-04 1:30 [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Don't print reset reason in VMs Jason Andryuk
@ 2026-11-04 8:20 ` Juergen Gross
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Juergen Gross @ 2026-11-04 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Andryuk, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov,
Dave Hansen, x86, H. Peter Anvin, Mario Limonciello,
Yazen Ghannam
Cc: xen-devel, Ariadne Conill, Sean Christopherson, stable,
Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel
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On 04.11.26 02:30, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> print_s5_reset_status_mmio() expects to read FCH MMIO on baremetal. VMs
> don't have emulated FCH registers, so there is nothing to check. Add an
> early exit when running on a hypervisor.
>
> The real motivation is Xen PV domUs can't boot on Zen CPUs. PV domUs
> PTE contain system physical addresses - they don't have concept of guest
> physical addresses. domUs can only map physical addresses they are
> assigned, so a domU fails to map the FCH MMIO addresses. However
> set_pte() does not return failure, so ioremap() returns a pointer while
> the PTEs are unpopulated. print_s5_reset_status_mmio() faults when
> reading through the pointer, breaking the boot. This change fixes Xen
> PV domUs booting on Zen CPUs.
>
> dom0 can map the FCH MMIO, but it has X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR set. With
> this change, it no longer prints the reset reason.
>
> Fixes: ab8131028710 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Print the reason for the last reset")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Juergen
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