Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:40:05 -0800 (PST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: i386 cpu hotplug bug - instant reboot when onlining secondary |
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > > > On a dual P3 Xeon machine, offlining and then onlining a cpu makes the > > > box instantly reboot. I've been seeing this throughout the 2.6.16-rc > > > series, but wasn't able to collect more information until now. Not > > > sure when this last worked, unfortunately. > > > > > > With the debugging patch below, I get this on serial console: > > > > Does 2.6.14 work? Also i wonder if it gets out of the trampoline... > > 2.6.14 works (albeit with an APIC error reported). When retesting > 2.6.16-rc4 with your patch on top of my debugging patch, I don't see the > "startup_secondary" line:
Hi Nathan,
Can you try the following patch? We can start moving the WARM_BOOT_HLT down until it triple faults (i'm assuming it at least gets this far).
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/head.S =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/head.S,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 head.S --- linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/head.S 11 Feb 2006 16:55:14 -0000 1.1.1.1 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/head.S 28 Feb 2006 15:34:34 -0000 @@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ page_pde_offset = (__PAGE_OFFSET >> 20); * we know the trampoline has already loaded the boot_gdt_table GDT * for us. */ +#define warm_boot tsc_sync_disabled-__PAGE_OFFSET +#define WARM_BOOT_HLT \ + cmpl $0, warm_boot; \ +10: \ + jne 10b + ENTRY(startup_32_smp) cld movl $(__BOOT_DS),%eax @@ -168,6 +174,8 @@ ENTRY(startup_32_smp) * NOTE! We have to correct for the fact that we're * not yet offset PAGE_OFFSET.. */ + WARM_BOOT_HLT + #define cr4_bits mmu_cr4_features-__PAGE_OFFSET movl cr4_bits,%edx andl %edx,%edx Index: linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 smpboot.c --- linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 11 Feb 2006 16:55:14 -0000 1.1.1.1 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 28 Feb 2006 15:34:42 -0000 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static cpumask_t smp_commenced_mask; * is no way to resync one AP against BP. TBD: for prescott and above, we * should use IA64's algorithm */ -static int __devinitdata tsc_sync_disabled; +int __devinitdata tsc_sync_disabled; /* Per CPU bogomips and other parameters */ struct cpuinfo_x86 cpu_data[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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