Re: stable v6.6.24 regression: boot fails: bisected to "x86/mpparse: Register APIC address only once"

Wolfgang Walter
2024-04-05T10:35:14Z

Am 2024-04-04 17:57, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 02:07:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> after upgrading to v6.6.24 from v6.6.23 some old boxes (i686; Intel
>> Celeron
>> M) stop to boot:
>>
>> They hang after:
>>
>> Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... No relocation needed... done.
>> Booting the kernel (entry_offset: 0x00000000).
>>
>> After some minutes they reboot.
>>
>> I bisected this down to
>>
>> commit bebb5af001dc6cb4f505bb21c4d5e2efbdc112e2
>> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Date: Fri Mar 22 19:56:39 2024 +0100
>>
>> x86/mpparse: Register APIC address only once
>>
>> [ Upstream commit f2208aa12c27bfada3c15c550c03ca81d42dcac2 ]
>>
>> The APIC address is registered twice. First during the early
>> detection
>> and
>> afterwards when actually scanning the table for APIC IDs. The APIC
>> and
>> topology core warn about the second attempt.
>>
>> Restrict it to the early detection call.
>>
>> Fixes: 81287ad65da5 ("x86/apic: Sanitize APIC address setup")
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
>> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>> Link:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240322185305.297774848@linutronix.de
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>>
>>
>> Reverting this commit in v6.6.24 solves the problem.
>
> Is this also an issue in 6.9-rc1 or newer or 6.8.3 or newer?
>

It is not an issue with 6.9-rc1. 6.9-rc1 just boots fine.

Regards,
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Wolfgang Walter
Studierendenwerk München Oberbayern
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