Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Load microcode during restore_processor_state()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 11:51 PM Pawan Gupta
<pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 6:52 PM Pawan Gupta
> ><pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> When resuming from system sleep state, restore_processor_state()
> >> restores the boot CPU MSRs. These MSRs could be emulated by the
> >> microcode. If microcode is not loaded yet, writing to emulated MSRs
> >> leads to unchecked MSR access error:
> >>
> >>   [   28.702947] PM: Calling lapic_suspend+0x0/0x210
> >>   [   28.703345] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x10f (tried to write 0=x0000000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff9b2819e4 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
> >>   [   28.703357] Call Trace:
> >>   [   28.703359]  <TASK>
> >>   [   28.703361]  ? restore_processor_state+0x255/0x2d0
> >>   [   28.703369]  x86_acpi_suspend_lowlevel+0x11f/0x170
> >>   [   28.703374]  acpi_suspend_enter+0x4f/0x1f0
> >>   [   28.703379]  suspend_devices_and_enter+0x6e0/0x7d0
> >>   [   28.703384]  pm_suspend.cold+0x35c/0x3a7
> >>   [   28.703388]  state_store+0x81/0xe0
> >>   [   28.703392]  kobj_attr_store+0x12/0x20
> >>   [   28.703396]  sysfs_kf_write+0x3f/0x50
> >>   [   28.703399]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x13b/0x1d0
> >>   [   28.703403]  new_sync_write+0x101/0x180
> >>   [   28.703408]  vfs_write+0x217/0x2a0
> >>   [   28.703413]  ksys_write+0x67/0xe0
> >>   [   28.703417]  __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
> >>   [   28.703421]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
> >>   [   28.703426]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> >>   [   28.703429] RIP: 0033:0x7fda13c260a7
> >>   [   28.703434] Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 =
> >>   00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48=
> >>   > 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24
> >>   [   28.703437] RSP: 002b:00007fffa4060268 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000=0000000001
> >>   [   28.703441] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fda13c=260a7
> >>   [   28.703443] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 000055a41f65a570 RDI: 00000000000=00004
> >>   [   28.703444] RBP: 000055a41f65a570 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000000=00004
> >>   [   28.703446] R10: 000055a41f0cc2a6 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000=00004
> >>   [   28.703447] R13: 000055a41f657510 R14: 00007fda13d014a0 R15: 00007fda13d=008a0
> >
> >__restore_processor_state() is used during resume from both
> >suspend-to-RAM and hibernation, but I don't think that the latter is
> >affected by the issue at hand, because microcode should be loaded by
> >the restore kernel in that case.  However, loading the boot processor
> >microcode in __restore_processor_state() during resume from
> >hibernation still works, although it is redundant in that case.
> >
> >It would be good to acknowledge the above in the changelog and also
> >mention in it that the issue is specific to suspend-to-RAM (ACPI S3 on
> >x86 PC systems).
>
> Yes, it will be good to add this.
>
> [...]
> >> @@ -262,11 +263,18 @@ static void notrace __restore_processor_state(struct saved_context *ctxt)
> >>         x86_platform.restore_sched_clock_state();
> >>         mtrr_bp_restore();
> >>         perf_restore_debug_store();
> >> -       msr_restore_context(ctxt);
> >>
> >>         c = &cpu_data(smp_processor_id());
> >>         if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL))
> >>                 init_ia32_feat_ctl(c);
> >
> >The change of the ordering between the above and msr_restore_context()
> >needs to be explained in the changelog too.
>
> This patch is already queued in tip tree. I am not sure if we can update
> the commit message in tip tree?

That depends on the maintainer who has applied the patch.