Re: Possible x2apic breakage

From: Jack Steiner
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 15:03:57 EST


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:15:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Suresh -
> >
> > This popped up in Ingo's x86 tree yesterday. This appears to be breaking
> > on our simulator running in x2apic mode. If I understand the code,
> > this is a real breakage and not a problem in our simulator:
> >
> >
> > arch/x86/include/asm/genapic.h
> >
> > static inline unsigned int read_apic_id(void)
> > {
> > unsigned int reg;
> >
> > reg = *(u32 *)(APIC_BASE + APIC_ID);
> > return apic->get_apic_id(reg);
> > }
> >
> >
> > As expected, the failure occurs right after:
> >
> > Enabling x2apic
> > Enabled x2apic and interrupt-remapping
> >
> > The next reference to apicid tries to read from mem instead of MSRs.
>
> yes - Suresh sent a fix earlier today. Could you please check latest
> tip/master (v2.6.29-rc3-1212-g69f3c6d or later), does it work fine in your
> simulator?

That fixed it. The latest tree now runs our (very limited) regression suite
of tests on all apic modes.

Thanks...


--- jack
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