Re: [GIT PULL] more x86/apic changes for v2.6.40

From: Suresh Siddha
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 13:45:21 EST


On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 23:15 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Possibly the resume fix in the APIC merge :-/
> >
> > It's these commits:
> >
> > 31dce14a3269: x86, ioapic: Use ioapic_saved_data while enabling intr-remapping
> > 4c79185cdb14: x86, ioapic: Allocate ioapic_saved_data early
> > b64ce24daffb: x86, ioapic: Fix potential resume deadlock
> >
> > The first one fixes the resume bug in an easily backportable way (although
> > the GFP_ATOMIC is not nice), the later two do it cleaner.
> >
> > So if b64ce24daffb works for you and 31dce14a3269 breaks this would signal
> > that the fix from Suresh is the source of the Atom regression.
>
> In particular the lapic_resume() bit looks suspect. Does save_ioapic_entries()
> get called? It's called in enable_IR_x2apic() but your Atom is probably not
> x2apic. Non-x2apic system do not get save_ioapic_entries() called, so there's
> nothing to restore at resume time AFAICS ... Suresh?

Patch appended(I am sorry, should have caught this earlier. Looks like
my system does keep the ioapic state intact during suspend/resume.)

---
From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: x86, ioapic: restore ioapic entries during resume properly

In mask/restore_ioapic_entries, we should be restoring ioapic entries when
ioapics[apic].saved_registers is not NULL. Fix the typo and address
the resume regression.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
index 9488dcf..e529339 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ void mask_ioapic_entries(void)
int apic, pin;

for (apic = 0; apic < nr_ioapics; apic++) {
- if (ioapics[apic].saved_registers)
+ if (!ioapics[apic].saved_registers)
continue;

for (pin = 0; pin < ioapics[apic].nr_registers; pin++) {
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ int restore_ioapic_entries(void)
int apic, pin;

for (apic = 0; apic < nr_ioapics; apic++) {
- if (ioapics[apic].saved_registers)
+ if (!ioapics[apic].saved_registers)
continue;

for (pin = 0; pin < ioapics[apic].nr_registers; pin++)



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