Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:27:03 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: >> 2.6.31-rc7 does not boot on vSMPowered systems. The sched domains >> seem to build incorrectly with error messages of the sort: >> >> [ 8.501108] CPU31: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1) >> [ 8.501127] CPU 31 MCA banks SHD:2 SHD:3 SHD:5 SHD:6 SHD:8 >> [ 8.650254] CPU31: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz >> stepping 04 >> [ 8.710324] Brought up 32 CPUs >> [ 8.713916] Total of 32 processors activated (162314.96 BogoMIPS). >> [ 8.721489] ERROR: parent span is not a superset of domain->span >> [ 8.727686] ERROR: domain->groups does not contain CPU0 >> [ 8.733091] ERROR: groups don't span domain->span >> [ 8.737975] ERROR: domain->cpu_power not set >> [ 8.742416] >> >> This is followed by oopsen in the scheduler code >> with NULL pointer deference in find_busiest_group. >> >> Git bisection pointed to the following commit: >> >> commit 2759c3287de27266e06f1f4e82cbd2d65f6a044c >> x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic >> >> Upon examining the history of the commit, the above commit seems to be a fix >> for: >> >> commit 4797f6b021a3fa399942245d07a1feb30df81bb8 >> x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case >> >> However, there appears to be bug in the commit >> 2759c3287de27266e06f1f4e82cbd2d65f6a044c, where flat_phys_pkg_id >> uses initial apic id instead of hard_smp_processor_id() on SMP machines. >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2759c3287de27266e06f1f4e82cbd2d65f6a044c >> >> This patch fixes the bug and causes vSMPowered systems to boot up >> correctly,
can you check if this one fix your problem?
BTW: what does your /proc/cpuinfo print about apic id and initial apic id?
[PATCH] x86: use read_apic_id to get apic id
and leave phys_proc_id to use initial apic id.
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static void __cpuinit generic_identify(s c->initial_apicid = (cpuid_ebx(1) >> 24) & 0xFF; #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 # ifdef CONFIG_X86_HT - c->apicid = apic->phys_pkg_id(c->initial_apicid, 0); + c->apicid = read_apic_id(); # else c->apicid = c->initial_apicid; # endif @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ static void __cpuinit identify_cpu(struc } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 - c->apicid = apic->phys_pkg_id(c->initial_apicid, 0); + c->apicid = read_apic_id(); #endif /*
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