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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	rafael@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 02/17] x86/acpi: Ignore invalid x2APIC entries
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:17:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734w7qttd.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231206070423.wp7cxxnwfe3lidm3@awork3.anarazel.de>

On Tue, Dec 05 2023 at 23:04, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-11-22 10:31:31 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Currently, the kernel enumerates the possible CPUs by parsing both ACPI
>> MADT Local APIC entries and x2APIC entries. So CPUs with "valid" APIC IDs,
>> even if they have duplicated APIC IDs in Local APIC and x2APIC, are always
>> enumerated.
>
> As just described in
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231206065850.hs7k554v6wym7gw5@awork3.anarazel.de/
> and also previously described by John Sperbeck
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231122221947.781812-1-jsperbeck@google.com/
>
> this patch causes some machines to "loose" cpus. All but one in my
> case.

Sorry for the delay.

> Even if the commit didn't have these unintended consequences, it seems like a
> commit like this hardly is -stable material?

Shit happens. We are all human, right?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-12 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-22 15:31 [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 01/17] scsi: sd: Fix sshdr use in sd_suspend_common() Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 02/17] x86/acpi: Ignore invalid x2APIC entries Sasha Levin
2023-12-06  7:04   ` Andres Freund
2023-12-12 16:17     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 03/17] hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 04/17] i2c: designware: Fix corrupted memory seen in the ISR Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 05/17] i2c: ocores: Move system PM hooks to the NOIRQ phase Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 06/17] netfilter: ipset: fix race condition between swap/destroy and kernel side add/del/test Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 07/17] nouveau: use an rwlock for the event lock Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 08/17] zstd: Fix array-index-out-of-bounds UBSAN warning Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 09/17] tg3: Move the [rt]x_dropped counters to tg3_napi Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 10/17] tg3: Increment tx_dropped in tg3_tso_bug() Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 11/17] modpost: fix section mismatch message for RELA Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 12/17] linux/export: clean up the IA-64 KSYM_FUNC macro Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 20:06   ` Lukas Bulwahn
2023-12-06  1:57     ` Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 13/17] kconfig: fix memory leak from range properties Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 14/17] drm/amdgpu: Do not program VF copy regs in mmhub v1.8 under SRIOV (v2) Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 15/17] drm/amdgpu: finalizing mem_partitions at the end of GMC v9 sw_fini Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 16/17] drm/amdgpu: correct chunk_ptr to a pointer to chunk Sasha Levin
2023-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 17/17] dm-crypt: start allocating with MAX_ORDER Sasha Levin

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