From: Max Grobecker max@grobecker.info
[ Upstream commit a4248ee16f411ac1ea7dfab228a6659b111e3d65 ]
When running in a virtual machine, we might see the original hardware CPU vendor string (i.e. "AuthenticAMD"), but a model and family ID set by the hypervisor. In case we run on AMD hardware and the hypervisor sets a model ID < 0x14, the LAHF cpu feature is eliminated from the the list of CPU capabilities present to circumvent a bug with some BIOSes in conjunction with AMD K8 processors.
Parsing the flags list from /proc/cpuinfo seems to be happening mostly in bash scripts and prebuilt Docker containers, as it does not need to have additionals tools present – even though more reliable ways like using "kcpuid", which calls the CPUID instruction instead of parsing a list, should be preferred. Scripts, that use /proc/cpuinfo to determine if the current CPU is "compliant" with defined microarchitecture levels like x86-64-v2 will falsely claim the CPU is incapable of modern CPU instructions when "lahf_lm" is missing in that flags list.
This can prevent some docker containers from starting or build scripts to create unoptimized binaries.
Admittably, this is more a small inconvenience than a severe bug in the kernel and the shoddy scripts that rely on parsing /proc/cpuinfo should be fixed instead.
This patch adds an additional check to see if we're running inside a virtual machine (X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR is present), which, to my understanding, can't be present on a real K8 processor as it was introduced only with the later/other Athlon64 models.
Example output with the "lahf_lm" flag missing in the flags list (should be shown between "hypervisor" and "abm"):
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 6 model name : Common KVM processor stepping : 1 microcode : 0x1000065 cpu MHz : 2599.998 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx rdtscp lm rep_good nopl cpuid extd_apicid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c hypervisor abm 3dnowprefetch vmmcall bmi1 avx2 bmi2 xsaveopt
... while kcpuid shows the feature to be present in the CPU:
# kcpuid -d | grep lahf lahf_lm - LAHF/SAHF available in 64-bit mode
[ mingo: Updated the comment a bit, incorporated Boris's review feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Max Grobecker max@grobecker.info Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index 79d2e17f6582e..425bed00b2e07 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ static void init_amd_k8(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) * (model = 0x14) and later actually support it. * (AMD Erratum #110, docId: 25759). */ - if (c->x86_model < 0x14 && cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM)) { + if (c->x86_model < 0x14 && cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM) && !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) { clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM); if (!rdmsrl_amd_safe(0xc001100d, &value)) { value &= ~BIT_64(32);