linux-kernel - WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1239 setup_local

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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:55:16 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1239 setup_local_APIC+...

Hi,

we're hitting the warning below

<arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c>:
	...
        i = early_per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid, cpu);
        WARN_ON(i != BAD_APICID && i != logical_smp_processor_id());		<--- HERE
        /* always use the value from LDR */
        early_per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid, cpu) =
                logical_smp_processor_id();

during 32-bit testing, config is attached.

acb8bc09c6185e4d3d582d0076aaa6a89f19d8c5 added this warning
and triggers on the second part of the condition. I've dumped
x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid and logical_smp_processor_id and here's what I
get on a 32-cores box:

...
[    4.268493] CPU 31 irqstacks, hard=e5b1e000 soft=e5b20000
[    4.269358]  #31 Ok.
[    4.270358] smpboot cpu 31: start_ip = 80000
[    0.003999] Initializing CPU#31
[    0.003999] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.003999] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1239 setup_local_APIC+0x12c/0x3bd()
[    0.003999] Hardware name: None
[    0.003999] i: -2147483648, lg_smp_id: 79
[    0.003999] Modules linked in:
[    0.003999] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G        W   3.1.0-rc9-37cf9516-linus+ #1
[    0.003999] Call Trace:
[    0.003999]  [<c1035066>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a
[    0.003999]  [<c10350ee>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2b/0x2f
[    0.003999]  [<c16603bb>] setup_local_APIC+0x12c/0x3bd
[    0.003999]  [<c165fcae>] start_secondary+0x9f/0x18f
[    0.003999] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da41 ]---

That's right, x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid wraps around so if I were to
boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64 cores box, I'd get each two cores to have
the same logical apic id.

Oh, and logical_smp_processor_id(), i.e. logical APIC ID starts at 0x20,
acc. to SRAT:

[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x20 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x21 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x22 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x23 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x24 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x25 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x26 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x27 -> Node 0
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x28 -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x29 -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x2a -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x2b -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x2c -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x2d -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x2e -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x2f -> Node 1
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x40 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x41 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x42 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x43 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x44 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x45 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x46 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 2 -> APIC 0x47 -> Node 2
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x48 -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x49 -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x4a -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x4b -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x4c -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x4d -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x4e -> Node 3
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXM 3 -> APIC 0x4f -> Node 3

The warning triggers IMHO because we switch to bigsmp APIC in
default_setup_apic_routing() but the early x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid
enumeration comes from default_x86_32_early_logical_apicid()
which gets called as part of the default apic deal as part of
generic_processor_info().

So, in the end, and AFAICR, the warning triggers because we're comparing
logical APIC IDs from the APIC Logical Destination Register (0xD0) which
have been assigned by BIOS with "1 << cpu" shifted values which wrap on
32-bit.

I'd very much like to know why?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

Operating Systems Research Center
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

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