Bug#1117002: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c:123 do_clear_cpu_cap+0xdc/0x130 on Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 system
- To: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@greysector.net>
- Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, Laurențiu Păncescu <lpancescu@gmail.com>, x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>, "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 1117002@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#1117002: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c:123 do_clear_cpu_cap+0xdc/0x130 on Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 system
- From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:54:00 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] d0be2023-1dd4-4465-8153-d0f3f426a217@intel.com>
- Reply-to: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, 1117002@bugs.debian.org
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On 11/27/25 04:37, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> Could you boot the system on a known good kernel and run this, please?
>>
>> rdmsr -a 0x000001a0
>>
>> That'll dump out MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE on all the CPUs.
> # rdmsr -a 0x000001a0
> 60840488
> 60840488
> 60840488
> 60840489
I don't think there's any other way to read this than: the BIOS is buggy
and mis-programmed this MSR on one of the CPUs. We can shut the warning
up, of course. But it _is_ a quite valid warning.
I'm just not sure how much code we want to add to the kernel to silence
a warning on 15-year-old CPUs with buggy BIOSes.
Are there any ill effects other than the warning splat?
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