Tim,
The (extended) CPUID mask MSRs are associated with each core. They need
to be updated on each core if migration happens across CPUs. Changset
18402 does update the MSRs for each core. But printk() only happens on
core 0. If you move printk() statements below wrmsr(), you will see it
been called on each core.
It is hard to justify which way is better. I attach the patch anyway, in
case Keir or you want it for xen-unstable.
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei.huang2@xxxxxxx>
Best,
-Wei
Tim Deegan wrote:
Hi Travis,
In c/s 18402, the CPUID masks are only set once, on CPU 0. Can you
explain why this doesn't have to happen on every core, or at least every
socket? The white paper doesn't discuss it.
Cheers,
Tim.
diff -r 83a6621b91bf xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c Wed Feb 10 09:20:56 2010 +0000
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c Fri Feb 19 14:22:04 2010 -0600
@@ -131,10 +131,6 @@
}
status = set_mask;
- printk("Writing CPUID feature mask ECX:EDX -> %08Xh:%08Xh\n",
- feat_ecx, feat_edx);
- printk("Writing CPUID extended feature mask ECX:EDX -> %08Xh:%08Xh\n",
- extfeat_ecx, extfeat_edx);
setmask:
/* FIXME check if processor supports CPUID masking */
@@ -146,6 +142,10 @@
wrmsr_amd(MSR_K8_FEATURE_MASK, feat_edx, feat_ecx);
wrmsr_amd(MSR_K8_EXT_FEATURE_MASK, extfeat_edx, extfeat_ecx);
}
+ printk("Writing CPUID feature mask ECX:EDX -> %08Xh:%08Xh\n",
+ feat_ecx, feat_edx);
+ printk("Writing CPUID extended feature mask ECX:EDX -> %08Xh:%08Xh\n",
+ extfeat_ecx, extfeat_edx);
}
/*
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