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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Cc: "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] CPU hotplug updates for 4.9
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:22:53 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703091118230.3521@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489001551.2813.3.camel@sandisk.com>

Bart,

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Bart Van Assche wrote:

> Sorry but the cpuhp_issue_call() still occurs with Linus' latest tree
> (commit ec3b93ae0bf4 / Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip).
> 
> This morning I discovered that the hang only occurs if I/O AT support is
> enabled in the BIOS. I had enabled I/O AT support in the BIOS on February
> 23rd. With I/O AT support enabled the following warning appears during boot:

That's interesting, but I have no idea how that's related.

> WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 596 at drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c:342 ioat_dca_init+0x185/0x190 [ioatdma]
> ioatdma 0000:00:04.0: APICID_TAG_MAP set incorrectly by BIOS, disabling DCA

..

> In contrast with previous tests this morning I have been able to reproduce
> this hang with kernel v4.10. So it's not a kernel v4.10 regression. But the
> hang did not occur in a test with kernel v4.9.7. I assume this means that
> the regression got introduced between the v4.9 and v4.10 kernels.

Is it always the x86_pkg_thermal init which locks up?

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-09 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-03 17:37 [GIT pull] CPU hotplug updates for 4.9 Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-07  1:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-07  9:30   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-07 22:32     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-08  8:25       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-08 19:32         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-09 10:22           ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-03-09 17:20             ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-09 17:43               ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-09 22:48                 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-10  7:23                   ` Ingo Molnar
2017-03-10 17:37                     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-10 21:32                 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-14 15:06   ` [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: Serialize callback invocations proper Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-03-14 17:38     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-14 17:43       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-14 18:25     ` [tip:smp/urgent] " tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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