Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:12:01PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:53:45PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>> Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
>>>>>> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>>>>>>
>>>> Why?  The specs seem to indicate otherwise unless I am mistaken --
>>>> Intel  systems programming guide, Vol 3A Part1, chapter 7 section
>>>> 7.5.5 - Identifying Logical Processors in a MP system:
>>>> <quote>
>>>> After the BIOS has completed the MP initialization protocol, each logical
>>>> processor can be uniquely identified by its local APIC ID. Software can
>>>> access these APIC IDs in either of the following ways
>>>> </quote>
>>>> phys_pkg_id() indicates that the logical package id is being looked up,
>>>> so local apic id should be used here no?
>>>> What am I missing?
>>> initial apic id : it can not changed, there is fixed mapping from that to physical processor id aka socket id / node id.
>>>
>>> apic id: could be changed by BIOS to any value. there is no good way to get phys_pkg_id from that.
>>>
>> But BIOS is supposed to change it to a sane value.  Until 2.6.30, 
>> local apic id has been used to get phys_pkg_id for the 'flat' 
>> apics!  What changed?  Was this changed for a BIOS bug?  Even the 
>> intel books seem to indicate local apic usage!
> 
> We should revert to the .30 behavior unless there's a good reason 
> (even in that case we'll solve the regression and do a workaround 
> for vSMP). Yinghai?

we should stop overloading phys_pkg_id to get physical processor id (socket id ?) and apic id.

we need to find out what vSMP initial apic id looks like. and have one better phys_pkg_id for it.

otherwise we have problem with intel system that have apic id changing by BIOS too.

YH