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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:53:02 -0800
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stoney Wang <song-bo.wang@...com>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4] x86, apic: Check fadt x2apic phys in x2apic_phys_probe()
From: Stoney Wang <song-bo.wang@...com>
When a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server boots a regular kernel,
there will be intermittent lost interrupts which could
result in a hang or (in extreme cases) data loss.
The reason is that this system only supports x2apic physical
mode, while the kernel boots with a logical-cluster default
setting.
This bug can be worked around by specifying "x2apic_phys" or
"nox2apic" boot option, but we want to handle this system without
requiring manual workarounds.
BIOS set ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL in FADT table.
As all apicids are less than 255, BIOS need to pass the control
to the OS with xapic mode, according to x2apic-spec, chapter 2.9.
Current code handle x2apic when BIOS pass with xapic mode:
When user specify x2apic_phys, or FADT indicates PHYSICAL.
1. During madt oem check, apic driver is set with xapic logical or
xapic phys driver at first.
2. enable_IR_x2apic() will enable x2apic_mode.
3. if user specify x2apic_phys, x2apic_phys_probe() will install
right x2apic phys driver and use x2apic phys mode.
otherwise will skip and let x2apic_cluster_probe to take over
to install x2apic cluster driver (wrong one) even FADT indicates
PHYSICAL, because x2apic_phys_probe does not check FADT PHYSICAL.
Add checking x2apic_fadt_phys in x2apic_phys_probe() to fix the problem.
-v3: update the change according to Ingo.
-v4: merge changelog from Ingo.
[ changelog, and simplify code - Yinghai Lu ]
Signed-off-by: Stoney Wang <song-bo.wang@...com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc: stable@...nel.org
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c
@@ -20,18 +20,19 @@ static int set_x2apic_phys_mode(char *ar
}
early_param("x2apic_phys", set_x2apic_phys_mode);
-static int x2apic_acpi_madt_oem_check(char *oem_id, char *oem_table_id)
+static bool x2apic_fadt_phys(void)
{
- if (x2apic_phys)
- return x2apic_enabled();
- else if ((acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision >= FADT2_REVISION_ID) &&
- (acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL) &&
- x2apic_enabled()) {
+ if ((acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision >= FADT2_REVISION_ID) &&
+ (acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL)) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "System requires x2apic physical mode\n");
- return 1;
+ return true;
}
- else
- return 0;
+ return false;
+}
+
+static int x2apic_acpi_madt_oem_check(char *oem_id, char *oem_table_id)
+{
+ return x2apic_enabled() && (x2apic_phys || x2apic_fadt_phys());
}
static void
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ static void init_x2apic_ldr(void)
static int x2apic_phys_probe(void)
{
- if (x2apic_mode && x2apic_phys)
+ if (x2apic_mode && (x2apic_phys || x2apic_fadt_phys()))
return 1;
return apic == &apic_x2apic_phys;
--
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