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From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/debug] x86/kdump: No need to disable ioapic/ lapic in crash path
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:27:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120216172735.GX9751@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQVPnO8-tuPoio0Wxv=8rjdm2tJbBk3+3ystueyYtZn9BA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:16:00AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> So I suspect we have a bug in our apic initialization somewhere, but
> >> apic initialization should happen after printk are enabled.  Or at least
> >> after early printks so the reset YH is reporting doesn't make much sense.
> >
> > will try Don's first version patch that only removing disable_IO_APIC.
> 
> first version patch (only removing disable_IO_APIC) is working.

So I think I figured it out.  I went through and commented out code in
disable_local_APIC until I narrowed it down to the piece of code that
needs to be disabled for it to work.

Surprise, surprise... its LVTPC or perf! :-)  Actually it is the
nmi_watchdog which uses perf.  My theory is NMIs are not disabled and one
is generated by the local apic during decompression (just bad timing) and
*splat*.

Yinghai, you can probably prove this by

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

then do your kdump crash test.

At least that test worked for me.

So either we explicitly shutdown perf or just mask off LVTPC in a modified
disable_local_APIC?

Eric, thoughts, preferences?

Cheers,
Don

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-16 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-11 23:09 [tip:x86/debug] x86/kdump: No need to disable ioapic/ lapic in crash path tip-bot for Don Zickus
2012-02-12  1:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-12  3:13   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-12  4:17     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-13 12:52       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-13 16:51         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-13 18:16           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-16 17:27             ` Don Zickus [this message]
2012-02-16 21:53               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-16 21:56                 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-17  3:38                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-17 12:41                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-17 15:49                       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2012-02-17 20:18                         ` Don Zickus
2012-02-20  5:17                           ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2012-02-20 15:24                             ` Don Zickus
2012-02-17 19:54                       ` Don Zickus
2012-02-18  3:21                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-20 15:14                           ` Don Zickus
2012-02-21  8:01                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-21 13:59                               ` Don Zickus
2012-02-29 23:19                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-07 10:53                                   ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-07 10:54                                     ` [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-07 10:56                                       ` [PATCH 2/2] boot: add early NMI counter Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-08  4:50                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08  6:00                                           ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-08  4:41                                       ` [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08  5:53                                         ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-08 16:35                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-09  9:31                                             ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09  9:51                                               ` [PATCH 1/3] boot: fortify early_idt_handlers definition Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09  9:55                                                 ` [PATCH 2/3] boot: ignore early NMIs Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 10:01                                                   ` [PATCH 3/3] boot: add early NMI counter Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 20:52                                             ` [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12  5:43                                               ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-12  5:49                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12  6:14                                                   ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-12 13:36                                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-12 19:02                                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-12 19:58                                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-12 20:02                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 18:40                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 20:01                                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-12 20:04                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 20:16                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-13  2:11                                                             ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-13 13:33                                                               ` Don Zickus
2012-03-15  0:43                                                                 ` Simon Horman
2012-03-13  1:43                                                       ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-12 14:41                                                   ` Don Zickus
2012-03-07 15:50                                     ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/kdump: No need to disable ioapic/ lapic in crash path Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 18:27                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-08  1:29                                         ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09  0:59                                     ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2012-03-09  2:48                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-12 11:12   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-13 15:28   ` Don Zickus
2012-02-13 16:52     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-13 22:12       ` Don Zickus
2012-02-13 22:51         ` Don Zickus
2012-02-16  2:53       ` Don Zickus
2012-02-16 18:43         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-16 21:41           ` Don Zickus

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