linux-kernel - Re: x2apic boot failure on recent sandy bridge system

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Message-ID: <1350687838.6017.10.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:03:58 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	rrl125@...il.com
Cc:	fa.linux.kernel@...glegroups.com,
	"Berck E. Nash" <flyboy@...il.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: x2apic boot failure on recent sandy bridge system

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 13:42 -0700, rrl125@...il.com wrote:
> Any update? The messages just seem to have stopped months ago. A
> fallback would be nice, I have been booting the kernel with noa2xpic
> for since kernel 3.2, and currently I am working with 3.6.2.
> 
> If needed I can try to attempt modifying the patch to include
> fallback, but I am probably not the best person to do it.
> 

Are you referring to this commit that made into the mainline tree
already?

commit fb209bd891645bb87b9618b724f0b4928e0df3de
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 21 17:45:17 2011 -0800

    x86, x2apic: Fallback to xapic when BIOS doesn't setup interrupt-remapping
    
    On some of the recent Intel SNB platforms, by default bios is pre-enabling
    x2apic mode in the cpu with out setting up interrupt-remapping.
    This case was resulting in the kernel to panic as the cpu is already in
    x2apic mode but the OS was not able to enable interrupt-remapping (which
    is a pre-req for using x2apic capability).
    
    On these platforms all the apic-ids are < 255 and the kernel can fallback to
    xapic mode if the bios has not enabled interrupt-remapping (which is
    mostly the case if the bios has not exported interrupt-remapping tables to the
    OS).
    
    Reported-by: Berck E. Nash <flyboy@...il.com>
    Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111222014632.600418637@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
    Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
    Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>


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