Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sombody reported following BUG while testing kdump. Please find attached
> the fix.
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at arch/i386/kernel/apic.c:447!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0060:[<c100acc3>] Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.17-rc4-16M #5)
> EIP is at setup_local_APIC+0x20/0x1a3
> eax: 00000000 ebx: c4e61f88 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000020
> esi: 00050014 edi: c4e61f88 ebp: 00000000 esp: c4e61f5c
> ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
> Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c4e60000 task=c1389a10)
> Stack: <0>c4e61f88 c133dd44 c13264c0 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000 c4e60000 00000000 c1000284 c1002342 c12a6260
> Call Trace:
> <c13264c0> APIC_init_uniprocessor+0xa9/0xd8 <c1000284> init+0x28/0x1f6
> <c1002342> ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 <c100025c> init+0x0/0x1f6
> <c100025c> init+0x0/0x1f6 <c1000ae5> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> Code: 9d 5b 5e c3 a1 18 1c 35 c1 eb e0 56 53 8b 35 30 d0 ff ff a1 20 d0 ff ff c1 e8 18 83 e0 0f 0f a3 05 80 d2 34 c1 19 c0 85 c0 75 08 <0f> 0b bf 01 9b 78 24 c1 c7 05 e0 d0 ff ff ff ff ff ff a1 d0 d0
> EIP: [<c100acc3>] setup_local_APIC+0x20/0x1a3 SS:ESP 0068:c4e61f5c
> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> =============================================================================
>
>
> o Kdump second kernel boot fails after a system crash if second kernel
> is UP and acpi=off and if crash occurred on a non-boot cpu.
>
> o Issue here is that MP tables report boot cpu lapic id as 0 but second
> kernel is booting on a different processor and MP table data is stale
> in this context. Hence apic_id_registered() check fails in setup_local_APIC()
> when called from APIC_init_uniprocessor().
>
> o Problem is not seen if ACPI is enabled as in that case
> boot_cpu_physical_apicid is read from the LAPIC.
>
> o Problem is not seen with SMP kernels as well because in this case also
> boot_cpu_physical_apicid is read from LAPIC. (smp_boot_cpus()).
>
> o This patch fixes the problem by reading the boot_cpu_physical_apicid
> from LAPIC for all the cases hence bringing uniformity. At the same time
> reading from LAPIC should be more reliable then trusting MP tables. My
> understanding is that MP tables are anyway becoming a thing of past.
>
Oh dear. The APIC code is a teetering wreck already.
>
> diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~kdump-i386-boot-cpu-physical-apicid-fix arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc4-16M/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~kdump-i386-boot-cpu-physical-apicid-fix 2006-05-17 13:27:44.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-16M-root/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c 2006-05-18 05:11:44.000000000 -0400
> @@ -860,12 +860,7 @@ void __init init_apic_mappings(void)
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "mapped APIC to %08lx (%08lx)\n", APIC_BASE,
> apic_phys);
>
> - /*
> - * Fetch the APIC ID of the BSP in case we have a
> - * default configuration (or the MP table is broken).
> - */
> - if (boot_cpu_physical_apicid == -1U)
> - boot_cpu_physical_apicid = GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID));
> + boot_cpu_physical_apicid = GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID));
>
I just don't think we can do this sort of thing. The workaround for broken
MP tables is one of those nasty things we've gained through many years of
hard-won real-world experience.
If we just go and toss it away like this, all those machines which used to
work will break and there'll be a sad little dribble of regression reports
which everyone cheerily ignores as usual.
So, sorry, nope. Please find a way to fix kdump while retaining the
broken-MP-table workaround.
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