Re: [tip:x86/apic] x86, irq: Use cached IOAPIC entry instead of reading from hardware

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:33:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:31:44AM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> > 	Thanks for tracking down to this line of change. I have no
> > platform to reproduce this bug, so could you please help to revert this
> > commit and apply following patch to get some data about IOAPIC entry?
> 
> Yep, the cached data differs from what's in the hw reg sometimes:
> 
> dmesg | grep -i ioapic
> [    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> [    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> [    0.429355] ioapic0 pin9, hardware reg a939, cached data 1a939
> [    0.506249] ioapic0 pin9, hardware reg 1a939, cached data 1a939
> [    0.521547] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
> [    1.313959] ioapic0 pin19, hardware reg a9c1, cached data 1a9c1
> [    1.357875] ioapic0 pin12, hardware reg 93c, cached data 93c
> [    1.359204] ioapic0 pin1, hardware reg 931, cached data 931
> [    1.367423] ioapic0 pin8, hardware reg 938, cached data 938
> [    7.560846] ioapic0 pin17, hardware reg a981, cached data 1a981
> [    7.866814] ioapic0 pin18, hardware reg a9a1, cached data 1a9a1
> [   10.141662] ioapic0 pin16, hardware reg a942, cached data 1a942
> 
> This would explain the failure because the ahci ioapic pin19 has that
> discrepancy:
> 
> [    1.311476] ahci 0000:00:11.0: version 3.0
> [    1.313374] ahci 0000:00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
> [    1.313556] ahci 0000:00:11.0: flags: 64bit ncq sntf ilck pm led clo pmp pio slum part ccc 
> [    1.313959] ioapic0 pin19, hardware reg a9c1, cached data 1a9c1

Ok, so this is interesting: the cached data has bit 16 set which,
AFAICT, is in one of those io redirection table registers. That bit
masks out interrupts and if set, those get ignored. Which would explain
the timeoutting of the ATA commands because the IRQ is masked.

I don't know, though, why your cached data has bit 16 set....

This is all a big IMHO of course...

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    Boris.

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