Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:21:58 +0530 | From | Srinivasa DS <> | Subject | Re: [Need Help] Cpuhotplug operations on 32-bit mode of xeon-64bit processor crashes the system. |
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Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > Sorry for my delayed response. I was away on vacation. > > What platform is this? what do you mean by crashing? Do you see a > system freeze or oops? > Its xeon-64 bit processor,running in 32-bit compatibility mode(i386-code). We have not seen this problem in x86_64 envioronment. It happens in 32-bit compatibility mode.
Problem is in calculation of apicid's and delivery of IPI's.
I saw a oops,when I do cpuhotplug operations on it.
If you want any further information,please free to ask.
Thanks Srinivasa Ds
> thanks, > suresh > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:42:48PM +0530, Srinivasa Ds wrote: > >> I saw cpuhotplug operations on 32-bit mode of xeon-64bit processors >> crashing the system. This happens on latest 2.6.20-rc5 kernel also. Same >> (i386 cpuhotplug code) runs fine on xeon-32bit processors. >> Steps to reproduce. >> ==================== >> echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/online >> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/online >> ================================ >> dmesg shows. >> ============== >> Breaking affinity for irq 4 >> cpu_mask_to_apicid: Not a valid mask! >> CPU 6 is now offline >> ======================= >> >> On debugging the problem, I found that problem is not in cpuhotplug code >> but in apic part. Execution of "stale" IPI's by onlined cpus(which we >> offlined earlier) is causing the crash. Now we need to debug,why IPI's >> are reaching the offlined cpu's too. >> >> 1) During the calculation of apicid's, if cpu to which IPI has to >> deliver is not in >> same apic cluster,it prints "Not a valid mask" error and returns "0xFF" >> which means broadcast the IPI's to all cpus(which are offlined too) and >> hence the problem. >> >> 2) I booted the system with maxcpus=2 boot parameter, and tried cpu >> hotplugging on it. >> but still problem recreates(I think there is no concept of apic clusters >> if there are only 2 cpus). Hence it makes me to conclude that problem is >> in delivery of IPI's. >> >> So Iam completely stuck here. Iam not able to move forward in debugging. >> So could someone(may be intel folks) please throw some light on this. >> >> Thanks in advance >> Srinivasa DS >> LTC-IBM >>
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