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SubjectRe: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325
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On Thursday, 19 of June 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > > With such a configuration the "x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A
> > > second-chance" patch should not matter, because the only change it
> > > introduces is an attempt to try the same I/O APIC pin again, but with the
> > > IRQ0 line of the master 8259A enabled. That's not a terribly unusual
> > > configuration and nothing should get confused in the system.
> >
> > But it _does_ get confused, really.
>
> Something certainly gets confused, but so far I am not sure which bit
> exactly it is, are you?

No, I'm not.

> > > Barring the unlikely possibility of the 8259A actually being wired to
> > > INTIN2 of the I/O APIC I can see two possible explanations:
> > >
> > > 1. The 8259A interrupt actually escapes to the CPU somehow and is handled
> > > as an ExtINTA interrupt. This would make the code in check_timer()
> > > decide it has found a working configuration, while actually it has been
> > > fooled.
> [...]
> > Here you go:
> >
> > [ 0.108006] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> > [ 0.108006] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> > [ 0.108006] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... <3>
> > [ 0.108006] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...<3> works.
> >
> > The full dmesg is at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/debug/20080618/dmesg-1.log
>
> Thanks. In this case I suspect the case #1 quoted above happens, that is
> the 8259A manages to deliver its interrupt somehow. Note at this stage it
> is meant to be in the AEOI mode, so it can happily resubmit the interrupt
> indefinitely with no additional handling as long as it receives INTA
> cycles.
>
> Can you please try the patch below on top of "x86: I/O APIC: timer
> through 8259A second-chance" to see whether my hypothesis is true? It
> modifies the through-8259A setup path so that the APIC input gets masked,
> but the 8259A has the timer interrupt still enabled. Let me know how the
> timer interrupt is routed in this case.

That helped a lot, the system seems to work normally now.

Here's the relevant snippet from dmesg:

[ 0.108006] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 0.108006] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[ 0.108006] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... <3>
[ 0.108006] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...<3> failed.
[ 0.108006] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...<3> works.

and the whole thing is at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/debug/20080618/dmesg-2.log

> BTW, do we have any piece of technical information about the chipset
> used?

I, personally, don't have any and AMD only has SB600 documentation on its
web page (it's still marked as "AMD confidential" ;-)).

> The southbridge used is an ATI SB400, which is where I would
> normally expect two 8259A and an I/O APIC core to be placed.

There is an interrupt controller in there, but I'm not sure if there's any
8259A. The northbridge is on the CPU, actually.

Thanks,
Rafael


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