Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)
Konstantin Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 10:31:48 UTC 2018
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:13:10AM +0100, Pete French wrote:
> So, I got my first lockup in weeks, testing with the latest stable
> and the patch which sets the kernel bits. But I cant say it its
> Ryzen related or not.
>
> Meanwhile I also got access to an Epyc server in Azure. Am also
> runing the latest STABLE on that tp see how it goes. Interesting
> thing there is that there appears to be no access to the MSR's.
> They all appear as zerousing cpucontrol. I am not entirely surprised
> by this as the are very low level, but I di think they were saved
> and restored during context switches between virtual machines so I
> was hoping to be able to set them. Is this normal ?
It does not make any sense to even try to access the chicken bits
MSRs when running under virtualization. It is the duty of the
hypervisor to configure hardware. I updated the patch.
diff --git a/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c b/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c
index ccc5e64d0c4..bb342f42dec 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c
+++ b/sys/amd64/amd64/initcpu.c
@@ -130,6 +130,30 @@ init_amd(void)
}
}
+ /* Ryzen erratas. */
+ if (CPUID_TO_FAMILY(cpu_id) == 0x17 && CPUID_TO_MODEL(cpu_id) == 0x1 &&
+ (cpu_feature2 & CPUID2_HV) == 0) {
+ /* 1021 */
+ msr = rdmsr(0xc0011029);
+ msr |= 0x2000;
+ wrmsr(0xc0011029, msr);
+
+ /* 1033 */
+ msr = rdmsr(0xc0011020);
+ msr |= 0x10;
+ wrmsr(0xc0011020, msr);
+
+ /* 1049 */
+ msr = rdmsr(0xc0011028);
+ msr |= 0x10;
+ wrmsr(0xc0011028, msr);
+
+ /* 1095 */
+ msr = rdmsr(0xc0011020);
+ msr |= 0x200000000000000;
+ wrmsr(0xc0011020, msr);
+ }
+
/*
* Work around a problem on Ryzen that is triggered by executing
* code near the top of user memory, in our case the signal
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