linux-kernel - Re: PATCH/RFC: [kdump] fix APIC shutdown sequence

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Message-ID: <46BB504A.9000100@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:35:06 +0200
From:	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@...itsu-siemens.com>
To:	"vgoyal@...ibm.com" <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Chip Coldwell <coldwell@...hat.com>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: [kdump] fix APIC shutdown sequence

Vivek Goyal wrote:

> Did you also check IRR bits on LAPIC. May be some interrupt is already
> being served and your new interrupts has been queued on LAPIC and IRR bit
> on LAPIC is set?

That's it. Whenever the IO-APIC IRR bit is set, I see the LAPIC IRR bit set, too.
I never see any ISR bits set. Very rarely I see that IRQs are IRQ_PENDING or
IRQ_INPROGRESS, but that's apparently unrelated to the problem.

Actually, I often see APIC IRR bits set, but it only seems to matter for
IRQs coming from the secondary IO-APIC.

Unfortunately, just writng APIC_EOI in this situation (when an IRR bit is set)
has no effect.

I have tried to set the IRQ_DISABLED flag for all IRQs. From my understanding,
if I re-enable IRQs, that disables the actual IRQ handlers, but the ack()
function of the IRQ chip (which, in our case, sends EOI) is called anyway.
*That appears to work*, in the kdump kernel the IRR is cleared.

I'll run an overnight test with that technique tonight.

Martin

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