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kern/59715: nvmm: missing some MTRR MSRs
>Number: 59715
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: nvmm: missing some MTRR MSRs
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 20 00:05:00 +0000 2025
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current, 11, 10, 9, ...
>Organization:
An Unexpected MSRty
>Environment:
>Description:
NetBSD probes some MSRs that NVMM doesn't recognize, leading to annoying and rather useless messages on the console:
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x250, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x258, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x259, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x268, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x269, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x26a, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x26b, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x26c, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x26d, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x26e, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x26f, ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x250 [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x258 [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x259 [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x268 [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x269 [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x26a [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x26b [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x26c [val=0x0], ignored
qemu-system-i386: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x26d [val=0x0], ignored
https://releng.netbsd.org/b5reports/i386/2025/2025.10.19.20.52.09/install.log
Looks like these are MTRR-related MSRs:
1322 #define MSR_MTRRfix64K_00000 0x250
1323 #define MSR_MTRRfix16K_80000 0x258
1324 #define MSR_MTRRfix16K_A0000 0x259
1325 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_C0000 0x268
1326 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_C8000 0x269
1327 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_D0000 0x26a
1328 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_D8000 0x26b
1329 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_E0000 0x26c
1330 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_E8000 0x26d
1331 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_F0000 0x26e
1332 #define MSR_MTRRfix4K_F8000 0x26f
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/x86/include/specialreg.h?r=1.220#1322
>How-To-Repeat:
boot NetBSD/x86 under qemu -accel nvmm
>Fix:
Yes, please!
We should be able to handle our own MSR probes as a guest in our flagship hypervisor. If the MTRR MSRs aren't relevant perhaps we can put in stubs that at least don't print anything.
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