On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 08:59:46PM +0300, snikolov wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 10:27 -0700, Mike Larkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:13:14AM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 08:01:13PM +0300, snikolov wrote:
> > > > > This appears to be related to the LFENCE serializing MSR change
> > > > > that
> > > > > went in
> > > > > during the last round of side channel analysis fixes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ffffffff811c3037:       b9 29 10 01
> > > > > c0          mov    $0xc0011029,%ecx
> > > > > ffffffff811c303c:       0f 32                   rdmsr
> > > > > 
> > > > > According to the commit, "This MSR is available on all AMD
> > > > > families
> > > > > > = 10h...",
> > > > > 
> > > > > and since yours is family 15h, it should work. Maybe that
> > > > > assumption
> > > > > was wrong?
> > > > > 
> > > > > -ml
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > The Host's CPU is FX-8350 ,so you assumed right. Yet, I am new to
> > > > openBSD so I have no clue what approach to be taken.
> > > > 
> > > > Strahil
> > > 
> > > Maybe a BIOS update is available? The date on yours is 2014. Maybe
> > > they
> > > added that MSR after?
> > > 
> > 
> > As brynet@ pointed out in a later reply, BIOS update probably won't
> > help.
> > 
> > -ml
> > 
> 
> BIOS update is unavailable, yet the microcode patch_level is
> '0x06000852'. The kernel is: 3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64
> 
> Any kernel parameters to disable the mitigations and still leave the
> CPU at Opteron_G5 ?
> 
> Strahil
> 

Not from the OpenBSD side.

-ml

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