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intel idle: Make idle driver more robust
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kvm -cpu host passes the original cpuid info to the guest.

Latest kvm version seem to return true for mwait_leaf cpuid
function on recent Intel CPUs. But it does not return mwait
C-states (mwait_substates), instead zero is returned.

While real CPUs seem to always return non-zero values, the intel
idle driver should not get active in kvm (mwait_substates == 0)
case and bail out.
Otherwise a Null pointer exception will happen later when the
cpuidle subsystem tries to get active:
[0.984807] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[0.984807] IP: [<(null)>] (null)
...
[0.984807][<ffffffff8143cf34>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0xb4/0x340
[0.984807][<ffffffff8159e7bc>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x70
[0.984807][<ffffffff81001198>] ? cpu_idle+0x78/0xd0

Reference:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726296

Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <[email protected]>
CC: Bruno Friedmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[email protected]>
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watologo1 authored and lenb committed Jan 17, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ static int intel_idle_probe(void)
cpuid(CPUID_MWAIT_LEAF, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &mwait_substates);

if (!(ecx & CPUID5_ECX_EXTENSIONS_SUPPORTED) ||
!(ecx & CPUID5_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK))
!(ecx & CPUID5_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK) ||
!mwait_substates)
return -ENODEV;

pr_debug(PREFIX "MWAIT substates: 0x%x\n", mwait_substates);
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