Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:03:22 -0800 | Subject | Re: [BUGFIX/x86] Fix initialization of wakeup_cpu. | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> wrote: > Was originally reported in the.. > "Re: [PARAVIRT/x86] BUGFIX: Put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor" thread > > -- > With the patches for refactoring of wake_cpu macros, the 32bit code > in tip doesn't execute generic_apic_probe if CONFIG_X86_32_NON_STANDARD > is not set. > > Even on a x86 STANDARD cpu we need to execute the generic_apic_probe > function, as we rely on this function to execute the update_genapic > quirk which initilizes apic->wakeup_cpu. > > Failing to do so results in we making a call to a null function in do_boot_cpu. > > The stack trace without the patch goes like this. > > Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000 > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > IP: [<(null)>] (null) > *pdpt = 0000000000839001 *pde = 0000000000c97067 *pte = 0000000000000163 > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > last sysfs file: > Modules linked in: > > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc4-tip #18) VMware Virtual Platform > EIP: 0062:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010293 CPU: 0 > EIP is at 0x0 > EAX: 00000001 EBX: 00006000 ECX: c077ed00 EDX: 00006000 > ESI: 00000001 EDI: 00000001 EBP: ef04cf40 ESP: ef04cf1c > DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 006a > Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=ef04c000 task=ef050000 task.ti=ef04c000) > Stack: > c0644e52 00000000 ef04cf24 ef04cf24 c064468d c0886dc0 00000000 c0702aea > ef055480 00000001 00000101 dead4ead ffffffff ffffffff c08af530 00000000 > c0709715 ef04cf60 ef04cf60 00000001 00000000 00000000 dead4ead ffffffff > Call Trace: > [<c0644e52>] ? native_cpu_up+0x2de/0x45b > [<c064468d>] ? do_fork_idle+0x0/0x19 > [<c0645c5e>] ? _cpu_up+0x88/0xe8 > [<c0645d20>] ? cpu_up+0x42/0x4e > [<c07e7462>] ? kernel_init+0x99/0x14b > [<c07e73c9>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x14b > [<c040375f>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > Code: Bad EIP value. > EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 006a:ef04cf1c > > I think we should call generic_apic_probe unconditionally now. > > Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> > > Index: linux-tip-master/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-tip-master.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2009-02-10 11:37:31.000000000 -0800 > +++ linux-tip-master/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2009-02-10 11:50:37.000000000 -0800 > @@ -936,9 +936,7 @@ > map_vsyscall(); > #endif > > -#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32_NON_STANDARD) || defined(CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP) > generic_apic_probe(); > -#endif > > early_quirks(); >
1. only es7000 and numaq has update_genapic() ==> they need X86_32_NON_STANDARD.. 2. also will break 64 bit....
YH
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