Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Jim Mattson
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AMD EPYC CPUs never raise a #GP for a WRMSR to a PerfEvtSeln MSR. Some
reserved bits are cleared, and some are not. Specifically, on
Zen3/Milan, bits 19 and 42 are not cleared.
When emulating such a WRMSR, KVM should not synthesize a #GP,
regardless of which bits are set. However, undocumented bits should
not be passed through to the hardware MSR. So, rather than checking
for reserved bits and synthesizing a #GP, just clear the reserved
bits.
This may seem pedantic, but since KVM currently does not support the
"Host/Guest Only" bits (41:40), it is necessary to clear these bits
rather than synthesizing #GP, because some popular guests (e.g Linux)
will set the "Host Only" bit even on CPUs that don't support
EFER.SVME, and they don't expect a #GP.
For example,
root@Ubuntu1804:~# perf stat -e r26 -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
0 r26
1.001070977 seconds time elapsed
Feb 23 03:59:58 Ubuntu1804 kernel: [ 405.379957] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0xc0010200 (tried to write 0x0000020000130026) at rIP: 0xffffffff9b276a28 (native_write_msr+0x8/0x30)
Feb 23 03:59:58 Ubuntu1804 kernel: [ 405.379958] Call Trace:
Feb 23 03:59:58 Ubuntu1804 kernel: [ 405.379963] amd_pmu_disable_event+0x27/0x90
Fixes: ca724305 ("KVM: x86/vPMU: Implement AMD vPMU code for KVM")
Reported-by: 
Lotus Fenn <lotusf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: 
Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: 
David Dunn <daviddunn@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220226234131.2167175-1-jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: 
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