xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Allen M Kay <allen.m.kay@intel.com>,
	Yang Z Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Subject: RE: iommu=0 leading to panic when system defaults	 to using x2apic
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:06:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D07B2180200007800027E6B@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D530193C384E4@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

>>> On 14.12.10 at 17:53, "Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com> wrote:
>>  And why is it that Xen panics when the BIOS pre-enabled x2apic
>> mode without also enabling interrupt re-mapping, while Linux
>> (afaict from looking at 2.6.32 code and output from an affected
>> machine) simply enables interrupt re-mapping in this case?
> 
> AFAIK, Linux also requires interrupt remapping for x2apic.  I believe 
> Weidong has fixed the panic issue in Xen when x2apic is enabled without 
> enabling interrupt remapping.  It should now behave the same way as Linux.

No - just look at the very first if() in enable_bsp_x2apic().

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10  9:12 iommu=0 leading to panic when system defaults to using x2apic Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 10:06 ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-10 10:58   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 11:47     ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-10 12:02       ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 15:00         ` Zhang, Yang Z
2010-12-10 15:39           ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 18:26             ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-10 18:49               ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-11  0:07                 ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-13  8:15                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-13  9:03                     ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-14  2:25                       ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-14  7:44                         ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-14  7:59                           ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-15  2:35                           ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-14  8:21               ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14  8:46                 ` Weidong Han
2010-12-14  9:12                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14 16:53                 ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-14 17:06                   ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-12-14 17:08                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14 17:52                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-14 18:18                       ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-15  7:53                         ` Jan Beulich

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4D07B2180200007800027E6B@vpn.id2.novell.com \
    --to=jbeulich@novell.com \
    --cc=allen.m.kay@intel.com \
    --cc=keir@xen.org \
    --cc=weidong.han@intel.com \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com \
    --cc=yang.z.zhang@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).