Re: [REGRESSION] x86: support for new UV apic

From: Gabriel C
Date: Fri Apr 25 2008 - 07:21:21 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> * Priit Laes <plaes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I am getting two following warnings (probable one per each CPU core)
>>> using the latest Linus's git:
>>>
>>> WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c:86 read_apic_id+0x30/0x62()
>>> Modules linked in:
>>> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-03563-gf7288b1 #20
>> thanks - could you check the patch below, does it fix the warnings?
>
> I think it would have been better to change the WARN_ON to
>
> WARN_ON(preemptible() && num_online_cpus() > 1)

Hmm , I think you are right , Ingo's patch fixes the warning on boot but now I get one when I reboot the box.

>
> Preemption is actually ok here because this runs before the other
> CPUs are started
>
> Alternative patch appended.

I will test your patch in some minutes.

>
> -Andi

Gabriel

>
> ---
>
> Don't warn in read_apic_id() when preemptible but only one CPU online.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
> +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ unsigned int read_apic_id(void)
> {
> unsigned int id;
>
> - WARN_ON(preemptible());
> + WARN_ON(preemptible() && num_online_cpus() > 1);
> id = apic_read(APIC_ID);
> if (uv_system_type >= UV_X2APIC)
> id |= __get_cpu_var(x2apic_extra_bits);

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