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A system with NODEID_MSR was reported to crash during early boot without
any output.
The reason is that the union which is used for accessing the bitfields in
the MSR is written wrongly and the resulting executable code accesses the
wrong part of the MSR data.
As a consequence a later division by that value results in 0 and that
result is used for another division as divisor, which obviously does not
work well.
The magic world of C, unions and bitfields:
union {
u64 bita : 3,
bitb : 3;
u64 all;
} x;
x.all = foo();
a = x.bita;
b = x.bitb;
results in the effective executable code of:
a = b = x.bita;
because bita and bitb are treated as union members and therefore both end
up at bit offset 0.
Wrapping the bitfield into an anonymous struct:
union {
struct {
u64 bita : 3,
bitb : 3;
};
u64 all;
} x;
works like expected.
Rework the NODEID_MSR union in exactly that way to cure the problem.
Fixes:
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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 reStructuredText 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.