From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([2001:1868:205::10] helo=mail.zytor.com) by casper.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1TQOuZ-00057X-3H for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:47:48 +0000 Message-ID: <5085B0D0.9020508@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:47:12 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP References: <20121016043357.20003.5885.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20121016043528.20003.601.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <873916i88t.fsf@xmission.com> <5085A9A8.5020004@zytor.com> <87fw56fduo.fsf@xmission.com> <5085AD7D.106@zytor.com> <87a9vedyqe.fsf@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87a9vedyqe.fsf@xmission.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: len.brown@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, grant.likely@secretlab.ca, HATAYAMA Daisuke , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, vgoyal@redhat.com On 10/22/2012 01:43 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The reason the BIOSen go wonky is the INIT cause the cpu to go to the > reset vector at 4G-16 bytes. So it is very much expected that the > BIOSen start acting like you just came out of reset. > > If you can clear bit 8 of IA32_APIC_BASE_MSR and inform the cpu to not > send the cpu to 4G-16 bytes and instead send the cpu into it's magic > startup-ipi-wait mode then the BIOSen will not be involved on that path. > > It is a simple question of does the cpu support clearing bit 8 > meaningfully. > > If the cpu allows bit 8 to be cleared and sends the cpu to the reset > vector on receipt of the INIT IPI I would call that a deviation from the > x86 cpu specification. > > So clearing bit 8 is not a question about BIOSen it is a question of can > we avoid the BIOSen, by using an obscure under-documented cpu feature. > As I said, I thought Fenghua tried that but it didn't work, experimentally. -hpa _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec