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  1. Jul 12, 2008
    • Maciej W. Rozycki's avatar
      x86: I/O APIC: Never configure IRQ2 · af174783
      Maciej W. Rozycki authored 
      

There is no such entity as ISA IRQ2.  The ACPI spec does not make it
explicitly clear, but does not preclude it either -- all it says is ISA
legacy interrupts are identity mapped by default (subject to overrides),
but it does not state whether IRQ2 exists or not.  As a result if there is
no IRQ0 override, then IRQ2 is normally initialised as an ISA interrupt,
which implies an edge-triggered line, which is unmasked by default as this
is what we do for edge-triggered I/O APIC interrupts so as not to miss an
edge.

To the best of my knowledge it is useless, as IRQ2 has not been in use
since the PC/AT as back then it was taken by the 8259A cascade interrupt
to the slave, with the line position in the slot rerouted to newly-created
IRQ9.  No device could thus make use of this line with the pair of 8259A
chips.  Now in theory INTIN2 of the I/O APIC may be usable, but the
interrupt of the device wired to it would not be available in the PIC mode
at all, so I seriously doubt if anybody decided to reuse it for a regular
device.

However there are two common uses of INTIN2.  One is for IRQ0, with an
ACPI interrupt override (or its equivalent in the MP table).  But in this
case IRQ2 is gone entirely with INTIN0 left vacant.  The other one is for
an 8959A ExtINTA cascade.  In this case IRQ0 goes to INTIN0 and if ACPI is
used INTIN2 is assumed to be IRQ2 (there is no override and ACPI has no
way to report ExtINTA interrupts).  This is where a problem happens.

The problem is INTIN2 is configured as a native APIC interrupt, with a
vector assigned and the mask cleared.  And the line may indeed get active
and inject interrupts if the master 8959A has its timer interrupt enabled
(it might happen for other interrupts too, but they are normally masked in
the process of rerouting them to the I/O APIC).  There are two cases where
it will happen:

* When the I/O APIC NMI watchdog is enabled.  This is actually a misnomer
  as the watchdog pulses are delivered through the 8259A to the LINT0
  inputs of all the local APICs in the system.  The implication is the
  output of the master 8259A goes high and low repeatedly, signalling
  interrupts to INTIN2 which is enabled too!

  [The origin of the name is I think for a brief period during the
  development we had a capability in our code to configure the watchdog to
  use an I/O APIC input; that would be INTIN2 in this scenario.]

* When the native route of IRQ0 via INTIN0 fails for whatever reason -- as
  it happens with the system considered here.  In this scenario the timer
  pulse is delivered through the 8259A to LINT0 input of the local APIC of
  the bootstrap processor, quite similarly to how is done for the watchdog
  described above.  The result is, again, INTIN2 receives these pulses
  too.  Rafael's system used to escape this scenario, because an incorrect
  IRQ0 override would occupy INTIN2 and prevent it from being unmasked.

My conclusion is IRQ2 should be excluded from configuration in all the
cases and the current exception for ACPI systems should be lifted.  The
reason being the exception not only being useless, but harmful as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      af174783
    • Maciej W. Rozycki's avatar
      x86: L-APIC: Always fully configure IRQ0 · c88ac1df
      Maciej W. Rozycki authored 
      

Unlike the 32-bit one, the 64-bit variation of the LVT0 setup code for
the "8259A Virtual Wire" through the local APIC timer configuration does
not fully configure the relevant irq_chip structure.  Instead it relies on
the preceding I/O APIC code to have set it up, which does not happen if
the I/O APIC variants have not been tried.

The patch includes corresponding changes to the 32-bit variation too
which make them both the same, barring a small syntactic difference
involving sequence of functions in the source.  That should work as an aid
with the upcoming merge.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c88ac1df
    • Maciej W. Rozycki's avatar
      x86: L-APIC: Set IRQ0 as edge-triggered · 1baea6e2
      Maciej W. Rozycki authored 
      

 IRQ0 is edge-triggered, but the "8259A Virtual Wire" through the local
APIC configuration in the 32-bit version uses the "fasteoi" handler
suitable for level-triggered APIC interrupt.  Rewrite code so that the
"edge" handler is used.  The 64-bit version uses different code and is
unaffected.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1baea6e2
    • Glauber Costa's avatar
      x86: merge dwarf2 headers · 392a0fc9
      Glauber Costa authored 
      

Merge dwarf2_32.h and dwarf2_64.h into dwarf2.h.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      392a0fc9
    • Glauber Costa's avatar
      x86: use AS_CFI instead of UNWIND_INFO · d73a731a
      Glauber Costa authored 
      

In dwarf2_32.h, test for CONFIG_AS_CFI instead of
CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO. Turns out that searching for UNWIND_INFO
returns no match in any Kconfig or Makefile, so we're really
just throwing everything away regarding dwarf frames for i386.

The test that generates CONFIG_AS_CFI does not have anything
x86_64-specific, and right now, checking V=1 builds shows me
that the flags is there anyway, although unused.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d73a731a
    • Glauber Costa's avatar
      x86: use ignore macro instead of hash comment · 70f1bba4
      Glauber Costa authored 
      

In dwarf_64.h header, use the "ignore" macro the way
i386 does.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      70f1bba4
    • Glauber Costa's avatar
      x86: use matching CFI_ENDPROC · 557d7d4e
      Glauber Costa authored 
      

The RING0_INT_FRAME macro defines a CFI_STARTPROC.
So we should really be using CFI_ENDPROC after it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      557d7d4e
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: fix savesegment() bug causing crashes on 64-bit · d9fc3fd3
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      

i spent a fair amount of time chasing a 64-bit bootup crash that manifested
itself as bootup segfaults:

  S10network[1825]: segfault at 7f3e2b5d16b8 ip 00000031108748c9 sp 00007fffb9c14c70 error 4 in libc-2.7.so[3110800000+14d000]

eventually causing init to die and panic the system:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
  Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.26-rc9-tip #13878

after a maratonic bisection session, the bad commit turned out to be:

| b7675791859075418199c7af86a116ea34eaf5bd is first bad commit
| commit b7675791859075418199c7af86a116ea34eaf5bd
| Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
| Date:   Wed Jun 25 00:19:00 2008 -0400
|
|     x86: remove open-coded save/load segment operations
|
|     This removes a pile of buggy open-coded implementations of savesegment
|     and loadsegment.

after some more bisection of this patch itself, it turns out that what
makes the difference are the savesegment() changes to __switch_to().

Taking a look at this portion of arch/x86/kernel/process_64.o revealed
this crutial difference:

| good:    99c:       8c e0                   mov    %fs,%eax
|          99e:       89 45 cc                mov    %eax,-0x34(%rbp)
|
| bad:     99c:       8c 65 cc                mov    %fs,-0x34(%rbp)

which is due to:

|                 unsigned fsindex;
| -               asm volatile("movl %%fs,%0" : "=r" (fsindex));
| +               savesegment(fs, fsindex);

savesegment() is implemented as:

 #define savesegment(seg, value)                                \
          asm("mov %%" #seg ",%0":"=rm" (value) : : "memory")

note the "m" modifier - it allows GCC to generate the segment move
into a memory operand as well.

But regarding segment operands there's a subtle detail in the x86
instruction set: the above 16-bit moves are zero-extend, but only
if it goes to a register.

If it goes to a memory operand, -0x34(%rbp) in the above case, there's
no zero-extend to 32-bit and the instruction will only save 16 bits
instead of the intended 32-bit.

The other 16 bits is random data - which can cause problems when that
value is used later on.

The solution is to only allow segment operands to go to registers.
This fix allows my test-system to boot up without crashing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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