From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752108AbbHQREo (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:04:44 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:53663 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbbHQREn (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:04:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:04:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Laura Abbott cc: Jiang Liu , Joerg Roedel , Tony Luck , Borislav Petkov , javiermon@gmail.com, x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Boot crash with 659006b x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function In-Reply-To: <55C75CDD.5080109@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <55C75AEB.4070703@redhat.com> <55C75CDD.5080109@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001,URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Laura Abbott wrote: > (missed the LKML cc apologies for the noise) > > On 08/09/2015 06:51 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We received a report[1] of an early boot crash. The reporter had difficulty > > getting a full > > kernel log to view and only had a screenshot which showed a crash in > > native_apic_mem_read > > (full screenshot available at the bugzilla along with dmesg from working > > kernel) > > > > Bisection identified the following commit: > > > > commit 659006bf3ae37a08706907ce1a36ddf57c9131d2 > > Author: Thomas Gleixner > > Date: Thu Jan 15 21:22:26 2015 +0000 > > > > x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function > > > > enable_x2apic() is a convoluted unreadable mess because it is used for > > both enablement in early boot and for setup in cpu_init(). > > > > Split the code into x2apic_enable() for enablement and x2apic_setup() > > for setup of (secondary cpus). Make use of the new state tracking to > > simplify the logic. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner > > Cc: Jiang Liu > > Cc: Joerg Roedel > > Cc: Tony Luck > > Cc: Borislav Petkov > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115211703.129287153@linutronix.de > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner > > > > The report indicates that if local x2apic is disabled in the BIOS the kernel > > boots. > > > > Any ideas? Does the patch below fix the issue? Thanks, tglx --------------------> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index dcb52850a28f..339cf4fc4ca9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -1424,7 +1424,7 @@ static inline void __x2apic_disable(void) { u64 msr; - if (cpu_has_apic) + if (!cpu_has_apic) return; rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APICBASE, msr);