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Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 05:06:52 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     bp@...en8.de, michal.necasek@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, wbauer@....at,
        tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/smpboot: Init apic mapping before usage

Commit-ID:  1e90a13d0c3dc94512af1ccb2b6563e8297838fa
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1e90a13d0c3dc94512af1ccb2b6563e8297838fa
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:42:42 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:00:46 +0200

x86/smpboot: Init apic mapping before usage

The recent changes, which forced the registration of the boot cpu on UP
systems, which do not have ACPI tables, have been fixed for systems w/o
local APIC, but left a wreckage for systems which have neither ACPI nor
mptables, but the CPU has an APIC, e.g. virtualbox.

The boot process crashes in prefill_possible_map() as it wants to register
the boot cpu, which needs to access the local apic, but the local APIC is
not yet mapped.

There is no reason why init_apic_mapping() can't be invoked before
prefill_possible_map(). So instead of playing another silly early mapping
game, as the ACPI/mptables code does, we just move init_apic_mapping()
before the call to prefill_possible_map().

In hindsight, I should have noticed that combination earlier.

Sorry for the churn (also in stable)!

Fixes: ff8560512b8d ("x86/boot/smp: Don't try to poke disabled/non-existent APIC")
Reported-and-debugged-by: Michal Necasek <michal.necasek@...cle.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@....at>
Cc: prarit@...hat.com
Cc: ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com
Cc: michael.thayer@...cle.com
Cc: knut.osmundsen@...cle.com
Cc: frank.mehnert@...cle.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1610282114380.5053@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index bbfbca5..9c337b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1221,11 +1221,16 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	 */
 	get_smp_config();
 
+	/*
+	 * Systems w/o ACPI and mptables might not have it mapped the local
+	 * APIC yet, but prefill_possible_map() might need to access it.
+	 */
+	init_apic_mappings();
+
 	prefill_possible_map();
 
 	init_cpu_to_node();
 
-	init_apic_mappings();
 	io_apic_init_mappings();
 
 	kvm_guest_init();