Re: kexec boot regression

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> let see how BIOS mess it up again!
> >>>>> Heh, I had a feeling this was coming :-)
> 
> [    0.000000] user-defined physical RAM map:
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000000000100 - 0000000000098800 (usable)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000000098800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000078c63000 (usable)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000078c63000 - 0000000078e77000 (ACPI NVS)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000078e77000 - 000000007924e000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 000000007924e000 - 00000000792c2000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000792c2000 - 00000000792d2000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000792d2000 - 00000000792e7000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000792e7000 - 0000000079301000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079301000 - 0000000079303000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079303000 - 0000000079305000 (ACPI data)
> 
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079305000 - 0000000079310000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079310000 - 0000000079314000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079314000 - 0000000079319000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079319000 - 0000000079336000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079336000 - 0000000079358000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079358000 - 0000000079388000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079388000 - 00000000793c9000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000793c9000 - 000000007968f000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 000000007968f000 - 00000000796bb000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000796bb000 - 00000000799d8000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 00000000799d8000 - 0000000079bd8000 (ACPI NVS)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079bd8000 - 0000000079d87000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079d87000 - 0000000079d8a000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079d8a000 - 0000000079dca000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079dca000 - 0000000079dcb000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079dcb000 - 0000000079e1c000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079e1c000 - 0000000079e87000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000079e87000 - 000000007bd5f000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 000000007bd5f000 - 000000007be4f000 (reserved)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 000000007be4f000 - 000000007bf87000 (ACPI data)
> 
> [    0.000000]  user: 0000000100000000 - 0000001080000000 (usable)
> ...
> [    0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-80000000
> 
> [    0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 100000000-480000000
> 
> [    0.000000] SRAT: Node 2 PXM 1 480000000-880000000
> 
> [    0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 880000000-c80000000
> 
> [    0.000000] SRAT: Node 3 PXM 3 c80000000-1080000000
> 
> [    0.000000] ACPI: [SRAT:0x01] ignored 16 entries of 32 found
> 
> [    0.000000] NUMA: Using 31 for the hash shift.
> 
> [    0.000000] SRAT: PXMs only cover 49035MB of your 65419MB e820 RAM. Not used.
> 
> [    0.000000] SRAT: SRAT not used.
> 
> [    0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
> 
> so SRAT is broken?
> 
>         if (max_entries && count > max_entries) {
>                 printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "[%4.4s:0x%02x] ignored %i entries of "
>                        "%i found\n", id, entry_id, count - max_entries, count);
>         }
> ...
> 
> or what is your CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT? 3? can you try to set it to 6?

Hmm funky, perhaps the BIOS changed that too. NUMA has otherwise been
working fine, didn't check whether it still did after a BIOS upgrade.
I'll try 6, it is set to 3 iirc.

> [   13.018720] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-ff] at [mem 0x80000000-0x8fffffff] (base 0x80000000)
> 
> [   13.100724] [Firmware Bug]: PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0x80000000-0x8fffffff] not reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
> 
> [   13.112475] PCI: not using MMCONFIG
> 
> [   13.206650] ACPI: No dock devices found.
> 
> so mmconf is not used...<ask BIOS fix it please!>

Reported, thanks.

> then we get 
> 
> [   13.990335] IOH bus: [00, 00]
> 
> [   13.993707] IOH bus: 00 index 0 io port: [0, fff]
> 
> [   13.999023] IOH bus: 00 index 1 mmio: [0, ffffff]
> 
> [   14.004335] IOH bus: 00 index 2 mmio: [0, 3ffffff]
> 
> please check
> 
> [PATCH] x86/pci: intel ioh bus num reg accessing fix
> 
> it is above 0x100, so if mmconf is not enable, need to skip it

Will check that now.

-- 
Jens Axboe