Re: [PATCH] i386/bigsmp: eliminate false warnings regarding logicalAPIC ID mismatches

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 27 2011 - 09:36:57 EST



* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> These warnings (generally one per CPU) are a result of initializing
> x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid while apic_default is still in use, but the
> check in setup_local_APIC() being done when apic_bigsmp was already
> used as an override in default_setup_apic_routing():
>
> Overriding APIC driver with bigsmp
> Enabling APIC mode: Physflat. Using 5 I/O APICs
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at .../arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1239 setup_local_APIC+0x137/0x46b()
> Hardware name: ...
> CPU0 logical APIC ID: 1 != 0
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.1-2011-08-09-jb #2
> Call Trace:
> [<c1005f91>] try_stack_unwind+0x1b1/0x1f0
> [<c1004cc7>] dump_trace+0x47/0x110
> [<c1005b0b>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x4b/0x60
> [<c1005b38>] show_trace+0x18/0x20
> [<c1261435>] dump_stack+0x6d/0x72
> [<c10355f7>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xb0
> [<c10356c3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40
> [<c13fda81>] setup_local_APIC+0x137/0x46b
> [<c13d1733>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x108/0x1cd
> [<c13c61ff>] kernel_init+0x37/0x12c
> [<c1264826>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd
> ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
> ...
> CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=f1c9a000 soft=f1c9c000
> Booting Node 0, Processors #1
> smpboot cpu 1: start_ip = 9e000
> Initializing CPU#1
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at .../arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1239 setup_local_APIC+0x137/0x46b()
> Hardware name: ...
> CPU1 logical APIC ID: 2 != 8
> ...
>
> Fix this (for the time being, i.e. until x86_32_early_logical_apicid()
> will get removed again, as Tehun says ought to be possible) by
> overriding the previously stored values at the point where the APIC
> driver gets overridden.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx (2.6.39 and onwards)
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_32.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> --- 3.1-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_32.c
> +++ 3.1-rc2-i386-bigsmp-early-lapicid-override/arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_32.c
> @@ -203,7 +203,18 @@ void __init default_setup_apic_routing(v
> if (!cmdline_apic && apic == &apic_default) {
> struct apic *bigsmp = generic_bigsmp_probe();
> if (bigsmp) {
> + unsigned int cpu;
> +
> apic = bigsmp;
> + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> + if (early_per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid,
> + cpu) == BAD_APICID)
> + continue;
> + early_per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid,
> + cpu) =
> + bigsmp->x86_32_early_logical_apicid
> + (cpu);
> + }
> printk(KERN_INFO "Overriding APIC driver with %s\n",
> apic->name);
> }

This could move into a separate function i suspect, which would
de-uglify it quite significantly?

Thanks,

Ingo
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