system freeze when processor.ko is loaded during boot

[Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>]

Hello,

I see a system freeze with xen-unstable and jeremy/xen/2.6.32-next
kernel when the processor ACPI mocule is loaded during boot on my
Samsung X50 notebook. I first saw this problem with Xen under OpenSUSE
11.3 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623680) with the
OpenSUSE hypervisor and kernel.

So far, I have found out the following:

 - no problem with OpenSUSE default kernel
 - no problem with Xen if I don't load processor.ko
 - no problem with "max_cstate=1" hypervisor parameter (but max_cstate=2
freezes)

 - when the freeze happens, I am usually seeing some unreleated messages
about USB or SATA device initialization. No keys at all are working,
sometimes the disk LED stays on without the disk making noises. I
haven't been able to see any hypervisor messages (even with "vga=keep";
unfortunately the system has no serial port). The Xen "watchdog"
parameter causes the machine to reboot without any messages.

 - The weirdest thing is that once the system has booted, I seem to be
able to load processor.ko without problems (at least the system doesn't
freeze, even if I let it idle for a long time or if I do normal work
under X). With the SUSE hypervisor + kernel I was even able to verify
that cpuidle was working and C3 was being used (with xen-unstable, I
couldn't get xenpm to work so far).

- However if processor.ko is loaded during boot, the system always
freezes (100% reproducable). I tried loading it in the initrd (SUSE
default) and early after mounting the root FS (autoloaded by udev I
think), and even compiling it into the kernel proper (tried that only
with the jeremy kernel). In all cases, the system freezes hard.

Probably the freeze occurs when the CPU enters a deep C-state while some
HW initialization is going on at boot time.

I am a little out of clues how to debug this further, any hints would be
welcome.

The info below was taken with the normal OpenSUSE kernel.

Thanks for any hints
Martin

martin@athene:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips        : 1596.03
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

martin@athene:~$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info
processor id:            0
acpi id:                 0
bus mastering control:   yes
power management:        yes
throttling control:      yes
limit interface:         yes

martin@athene:~$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power
active state:            C0
max_cstate:              C8
maximum allowed latency: 2000000000 usec
states:
    C1:                  type[C1] promotion[--] demotion[--]
latency[001] usage[00001563] duration[00000000000000000000]
    C2:                  type[C2] promotion[--] demotion[--]
latency[001] usage[00308057] duration[00000000002512350868]
    C3:                  type[C3] promotion[--] demotion[--]
latency[085] usage[00126109] duration[00000000000772728489]
    C4:                  type[C3] promotion[--] demotion[--]
latency[185] usage[00537539] duration[00000000008753288513]
m

[    3.345147] processor_driver-0392 [00] processor_get_info    : Bus
mastering arbitration control present
[    3.345187] processor_driver-0474 [00] processor_get_info    :
Processor [0:0]
[    3.345215] processor_throttling-1141 [00] processor_get_throttli:
pblk_address[0x00001010] duty_offset[3] duty_width[1]
[    3.345233] processor_throttling-1187 [00] processor_get_throttli:
Found 2 throttling states
[    3.345246] processor_throttling-0657 [00] processor_get_throttli:
Throttling state is T0 (1000% throttling applied)
[    3.345585] processor_idle-0526 [00] processor_get_power_in: Found 4
power states
[    3.345931] processor_throttling-0218 [00] processor_throttling_i:
Assume no T-state coordination
[   82.129875] processor_perflib-0349 [00] processor_get_performa: Found
6 performance states
[   82.129889] processor_perflib-0367 [00] processor_get_performa:
Extracting state 0
[   82.129901] processor_perflib-0385 [00] processor_get_performa: State
[0]: core_frequency[2133] power[27000] transition_latency[10]
bus_master_latency[10] control[0x1029] status[0x1029]
[   82.129918] processor_perflib-0367 [00] processor_get_performa:
Extracting state 1
[   82.129928] processor_perflib-0385 [00] processor_get_performa: State
[1]: core_frequency[1867] power[24000] transition_latency[10]
bus_master_latency[10] control[0xe25] status[0xe25]
[   82.129945] processor_perflib-0367 [00] processor_get_performa:
Extracting state 2
[   82.129955] processor_perflib-0385 [00] processor_get_performa: State
[2]: core_frequency[1600] power[21000] transition_latency[10]
bus_master_latency[10] control[0xc20] status[0xc20]
[   82.129972] processor_perflib-0367 [00] processor_get_performa:
Extracting state 3
[   82.129982] processor_perflib-0385 [00] processor_get_performa: State
[3]: core_frequency[1333] power[19000] transition_latency[10]
bus_master_latency[10] control[0xa1c] status[0xa1c]
[   82.129998] processor_perflib-0367 [00] processor_get_performa:
Extracting state 4
[   82.130009] processor_perflib-0385 [00] processor_get_performa: State
[4]: core_frequency[1067] power[16000] transition_latency[10]
bus_master_latency[10] control[0x817] status[0x817]
[   82.130025] processor_perflib-0367 [00] processor_get_performa:
Extracting state 5
[   82.130035] processor_perflib-0385 [00] processor_get_performa: State
[5]: core_frequency[800] power[13000] transition_latency[10]
bus_master_latency[10] control[0x612] status[0x612]
[   82.130173] processor_perflib-0486 [00] processor_notify_smm  : No
SMI port or pstate_control