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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] perf/x86/intel/rapl: avoid access unallocate memory
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On 11/08/2016 09:31 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
>> [ 0.016335] topology_update_package_map: apicid 0 pkg 0 cpu 0
>> [ 0.016398] smpboot: APIC(0) Converting physical 0 to logical
>> package 0, cpu 0 (ffff88023fc0a040)
>> [ 0.016399] topology_update_package_map: apicid 1 pkg 1 cpu 1
>> [ 0.016462] smpboot: APIC(1) Converting physical 1 to logical
>> package 1, cpu 1 (ffff88023fd0a040)
>>
>> So, I don't know where apic->cpu_present_to_apicid(cpu) is getting its
>> apicid but it certainly doesn't seem to the match the apicid in the
>> CPU's registers. For whatever reason, my VMware system is reporting
>> that the second CPU has a local APIC ID of 2:
>
> The initial information comes from MP tables or ACPI.
>
>> [ 0.009115] identify_cpu: cpu_index 0 phys_proc_id is now 0,
>> apicid 0, initial_apicid 0
>> ...
>> [ 0.237401] identify_cpu: cpu_index 1 phys_proc_id is now 2,
>> apicid 2, initial_apicid 2
>
> And the CPUID emulation tells something different. Sigh!
>
>> I was thinking it might be better to call topology_update_package_map()
>> at the bottom of identify_cpu() to setup the secondary CPU's. The boot
>> cpu could be setup during smp_init_package_map().
>
> Perhaps, but that does not make the inconsistencies go away....

By the time I know it's not consistent, there isn't anything I can do
about it. I can't update the table to remove the bad information.

The other alternative, is to trust the ACPI and just update the
cpu_data's apicid in identify_cpu() to the value from the table.
The earlier kernels didn't seem to rely as much on this information.
But it does appear to be "wrong" in the APIC table. From acpidump:

[02Ch 0044 1] Subtable Type : 00 [Processor Local APIC]
[02Dh 0045 1] Length : 08
[02Eh 0046 1] Processor ID : 00
[02Fh 0047 1] Local Apic ID : 00
[030h 0048 4] Flags (decoded below) : 00000001
Processor Enabled : 1

[034h 0052 1] Subtable Type : 00 [Processor Local APIC]
[035h 0053 1] Length : 08
[036h 0054 1] Processor ID : 01
[037h 0055 1] Local Apic ID : 01
[038h 0056 4] Flags (decoded below) : 00000001
Processor Enabled : 1



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