LKML: Alexander Monakov: Re: x86: AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back

AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back  

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 09:38:09AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > This sounds suspiciously like an errata which was fixed with a ucode
> > update last year.
> 
> Yes, it looks like it.
> 
> Alternatively, you can try booting with "clearcpuid=xsaves" - that
> should take care of your observation too but yeah, you should rather
> update your microcode.

Hi folks,

I can reproduce this bug on AMD Renoir SoC:

vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 96
model name      : AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with Radeon Graphics
stepping        : 1
microcode       : 0x8600104

for which there's no microcode update, the microcode_amd_fam17h.bin file
in the linux-firmware.git repo carries only the following patches:

$ ./amd_ucode_info.py microcode_amd_fam17h.bin
Microcode patches in microcode_amd_fam17h.bin:
  Family=0x17 Model=0x08 Stepping=0x02: Patch=0x0800820d Length=3200 bytes
  Family=0x17 Model=0x01 Stepping=0x02: Patch=0x0800126e Length=3200 bytes
  Family=0x17 Model=0x31 Stepping=0x00: Patch=0x08301055 Length=3200 bytes


I've seen microcode version increase after a BIOS update, so it seems like
internally microcode patches exist for Renoir too, but it's up to hardware
vendors to pick them up as part of a BIOS update. Is there any chance of
a conventional release like for the above three CPU models?

Thanks.
Alexander