From: Gerald Britton <gbritton@alum.mit.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: HyperThreading in recent 2.4-ac kernels
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:30:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211183059.A19030@light-brigade.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212112043.gBBKhLE28272@devserv.devel.redhat.com>; from alan@redhat.com on Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:43:21PM -0500
HyperThreading appears to work properly in vanilla 2.4.x, but fails to
initialize the sibling CPUs in 2.4.x-ac. The problem appears to be in
improper indexing by physical vs. logical CPU numbers.
in smpboot.c (in smp_boot_cpus):
Dprintk("CPU present map: %lx\n", phys_cpu_present_map);
cpu = 1;
for (bit = 0; bit < NR_CPUS; bit++) {
...
phys_apicid = raw_phys_apicid[bit];
...
if ((cpu_to_physical_apicid(bit) == BAD_APICID) &&
...
in mpparse.c (in MP_processor_info):
raw_phys_apicid[num_processors - 1] = m->mpc_apicid;
Booting with HT and some debugging enabled yields:
...
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0000] id[0x0] enabled[1])
CPU 0 (0x0000) enabledProcessor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0001] id[0x6] enabled[1])
CPU 1 (0x0600) enabledProcessor #6 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0002] id[0x1] enabled[1])
CPU 2 (0x0100) enabledProcessor #1 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0003] id[0x7] enabled[1])
CPU 3 (0x0700) enabledProcessor #7 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
...
CPU present map: c3
...
The processors appear to have physical IDs 0, 1, 6, 7. raw_phys_apicid[] gets
filled at indexes 0-4, but when the kernel tries to boot the CPUs, it queries
it with physical indexes 0, 1, 6, 7 and loses. I'm not sure exactly what the
correct way to fix this is. (a quick hack to raw_phys_apicid does get all 4
CPUs up and apparently working though)
There appear to be other areas where holes in the physical IDs will cause
problems (things fill indexes by a logical cpu number and index later by
physical ID, or the other way around).
Example: following booting a cpu, the check to see if it booted checks
cpu_to_physical_apicid(bit) where bit is the physical cpu id in the map, but
the table it's checking is indexed by logical cpu number.
-- Gerald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 20:43 Linux 2.4.20-ac2 Alan Cox
2002-12-11 23:30 ` Gerald Britton [this message]
2002-12-12 1:36 ` HyperThreading in recent 2.4-ac kernels Alan Cox
2002-12-12 20:12 ` detecting layout in RAID Anu
2002-12-17 22:55 ` Neil Brown
2003-11-18 21:01 ` error in Sparc64 rwlock.S leif
2003-11-18 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-19 0:46 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-19 21:37 ` leif
2003-11-19 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-20 0:03 ` leif
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