linux/arch/x86
Maciej W. Rozycki cd08d0754e x86: fix IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> >  With such a configuration the "x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A
> > second-chance" patch should not matter, because the only change it
> > introduces is an attempt to try the same I/O APIC pin again, but with the
> > IRQ0 line of the master 8259A enabled.  That's not a terribly unusual
> > configuration and nothing should get confused in the system.
>
> But it _does_ get confused, really.

 Something certainly gets confused, but so far I am not sure which bit
exactly it is, are you?

> >  Barring the unlikely possibility of the 8259A actually being wired to
> > INTIN2 of the I/O APIC I can see two possible explanations:
> >
> > 1. The 8259A interrupt actually escapes to the CPU somehow and is handled
> >    as an ExtINTA interrupt.  This would make the code in check_timer()
> >    decide it has found a working configuration, while actually it has been
> >    fooled.
[...]
> Here you go:
>
> [    0.108006] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> [    0.108006] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> [    0.108006] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... <3>
> [    0.108006] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...<3> works.
>
> The full dmesg is at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/debug/20080618/dmesg-1.log

Thanks.  In this case I suspect the case #1 quoted above happens, that is
the 8259A manages to deliver its interrupt somehow.  Note at this stage it
is meant to be in the AEOI mode, so it can happily resubmit the interrupt
indefinitely with no additional handling as long as it receives INTA
cycles.

Can you please try the patch below on top of "x86: I/O APIC: timer
through 8259A second-chance" to see whether my hypothesis is true?  It
modifies the through-8259A setup path so that the APIC input gets masked,
but the 8259A has the timer interrupt still enabled.  Let me know how the
timer interrupt is routed in this case.

Bisected-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 09:13:24 +02:00
..
boot x86: fix unused variable 'loops' warning in arch/x86/boot/a20.c 2008-06-12 21:27:05 +02:00
configs x86: add optimized inlining 2008-04-26 17:44:55 +02:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes-x86-32: Remove unused return code 2008-04-21 10:19:21 +08:00
ia32 signals: x86 TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
kernel x86: fix IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325 2008-07-08 09:13:24 +02:00
kvm KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structs 2008-06-24 21:02:32 +03:00
lguest lguest: fix ugly <NULL> in /proc/interrupts 2008-05-30 15:09:43 +10:00
lib x86-64: Fix "bytes left to copy" return value for copy_from_user() 2008-06-17 17:47:50 -07:00
mach-default spelling fixes: arch/i386/ 2007-10-20 01:13:56 +02:00
mach-es7000 i386: es7000 minor cleanups 2007-10-17 20:16:15 +02:00
mach-generic x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/mach-generic/bigsmp.c 2008-04-17 17:40:48 +02:00
mach-rdc321x x86, rdc321x: remove watchdog file 2008-04-17 17:40:50 +02:00
mach-visws x86: fix compilation error in VisWS 2008-04-24 23:15:44 +02:00
mach-voyager x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache() 2008-04-30 23:15:34 +02:00
math-emu x86: fix broken math-emu with lazy allocation of fpu area 2008-06-04 13:11:46 +02:00
mm arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: early_memtest(): fix types 2008-07-03 10:15:51 +02:00
oprofile x86: oprofile: remove NR_CPUS arrays in arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c 2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
pci x86: move pci_routirq declaration to pci.h 2008-07-08 09:13:08 +02:00
power x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c 2008-04-17 17:40:50 +02:00
vdso x86: use explicit copy in vdso_gettimeofday() 2008-05-23 14:08:06 +02:00
video x86: video/fbdev.c: add MODULE_LICENSE 2008-05-04 20:04:46 +02:00
xen Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-07-04 10:46:46 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-07-02 18:58:56 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fix 2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help text 2008-06-05 14:21:45 -07:00
Makefile x86: add subarch support (for headers) to x86_64 2008-04-17 17:41:01 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: move i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to arch/x86 2007-10-25 22:27:34 +02:00