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Message-ID: <86802c440803192032r2aa15a10pb32ef15fcfc693e7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:32:24 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <gcosta@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, "Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/79] smpboot integration

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >  * Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >  > Testing and bisectability:
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > The end result was tested in all my hardware (which includes qemu ;-).
>  >  >  > It does not mean it will boot _your_ hardware, but I did my best ;-)
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > The tree at least compiles in more than 20 randconfigs (for each of
>  >  >  > x86_64 and i386) For i386, each of the subarchitectures was compiled
>  >  >  > at least once. (By compile, I obviously mean, every patch,
>  >  >  > individually)
>  >  >
>  >  >  very nice work! I'll pick it up - and i'm not too worried about
>  >  >  breakages because at 80 patches granularity any problem should be
>  >  >  identifiable in a very finegrained way.
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  it broke 4 sockets quad core above with 64 bit
>  >
>  >  Booting processor 11/15 ip 6000
>  >  Initializing CPU#11
>  >  masked ExtINT on CPU#11
>  >  Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4589.46 BogoMIPS (lpj=9178934)
>  >  CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
>  >  CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
>  >  CPU 11/f -> Node 2
>  >  CPU: Physical Processor ID: 2
>  >  CPU: Processor Core ID: 3
>  >  CPU11: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8356 stepping 03
>  >  checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#11]: passed.
>  >  Booting processor 12/16 ip 6000
>  >
>  >  looks like local apic id up 4 bit is masked out. so can not start 0x10
>  >  above any more.
>
>  in wakeup_secondary_via_INIT
>  before the patchsets
>  64 bit code:
>
>         /*
>          * Send IPI
>          */
>         apic_write(APIC_ICR, APIC_INT_LEVELTRIG | APIC_INT_ASSERT
>                                 | APIC_DM_INIT);
>
>
>  after patchset
>
>         /* Boot on the stack */
>         /* Kick the second */
>         apic_write_around(APIC_ICR, APIC_DM_NMI | APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
>
>  So that is wrong! esp for system has ext apic id that is has 8 bits
>  instead of 4 bits.
>

it seems there is two wakeup_secondary_cpu. one for NMI and one INIT.

but should have

#define WAKE_SECONDARY_VIA_INIT

for x86_64

but after

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#undef WAKE_SECONDARY_VIA_NMI
#define WAKE_SECONDARY_VIA_INIT
#endif

it still doesn't work.

YH
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