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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 3] apic: record local apic state on boot



On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:08:14PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Xen does not store the boot local apic state which leads to problems
> when shutting down for a kexec jump.  This patch records the boot
> state so we can return to the boot state when kexec'ing.
> 
> This is per CPU because all 3 bioses on the boxes I have tested dont
> enabled all local apics on boot.  As a result, we have to return to
> the bios state so the ACPI tables match up with the hardware state
> for the booting kernel.

Which ACPI table requires this?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r f531ed84b066 -r 62a8ce6595ad xen/arch/x86/apic.c
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/apic.c     Tue May 17 17:32:19 2011 +0100
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/apic.c     Wed May 18 19:00:13 2011 +0100
> @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ u8 __read_mostly apic_verbosity;
>  static bool_t __initdata opt_x2apic = 1;
>  boolean_param("x2apic", opt_x2apic);
>  
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(enum apic_mode, apic_boot_mode) = 
> APIC_MODE_INVALID;
> +
>  bool_t __read_mostly x2apic_enabled = 0;
>  bool_t __read_mostly directed_eoi_enabled = 0;
>  
> @@ -1437,6 +1439,41 @@ int __init APIC_init_uniprocessor (void)
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/* Needs to be called once per CPU during startup.  It records the state the 
> BIOS
> + * leaves the local APIC so we can tare back down upon shutdown/crash

tare?

> + */
> +void __init record_boot_APIC_mode(void)
> +{
> +    enum apic_mode this_apic_mode;
> +    u64 msr_contents;
> +
> +    this_apic_mode = APIC_MODE_INVALID;
> +
> +    /* Sanity check - we should only ever run once */
> +    BUG_ON( APIC_MODE_INVALID != this_cpu(apic_boot_mode) );
> +
> +    rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APICBASE, msr_contents);
> +
> +    /* Reading EXTD bit from the MSR is only valid if CPUID says so, else 
> reserved */
> +    if ( cpu_has(&current_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_X2APIC)
> +         && (msr_contents & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_EXTD) )
> +        this_apic_mode = APIC_MODE_X2APIC;
> +    else
> +        {
> +            /* EN bit should always be valid as long as we can read the MSR
> +             * Can anyone confirm this?

Email Vivek Goyal. He is the kexec/kdump maintainer.

> +             */
> +            if ( msr_contents & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE )
> +                this_apic_mode = APIC_MODE_XAPIC;
> +            else
> +                this_apic_mode = APIC_MODE_DISABLED;
> +        }
> +
> +    this_cpu(apic_boot_mode) = this_apic_mode;
> +    apic_printk(APIC_DEBUG, "APIC boot state is %d on core #%d\n",
> +                this_apic_mode, smp_processor_id());

This begs of a function to convert those enums to strings..
> +}
> +
>  void check_for_unexpected_msi(unsigned int vector)
>  {
>      unsigned long v = apic_read(APIC_ISR + ((vector & ~0x1f) >> 1));
> diff -r f531ed84b066 -r 62a8ce6595ad xen/arch/x86/genapic/probe.c
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/genapic/probe.c    Tue May 17 17:32:19 2011 +0100
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/genapic/probe.c    Wed May 18 19:00:13 2011 +0100
> @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ void __init generic_apic_probe(void)
>  { 
>       int i, changed;
>  
> +    record_boot_APIC_mode();
> +

The spacing looks odd.

>       check_x2apic_preenabled();
>       cmdline_apic = changed = (genapic != NULL);
>  
> diff -r f531ed84b066 -r 62a8ce6595ad xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c  Tue May 17 17:32:19 2011 +0100
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c  Wed May 18 19:00:13 2011 +0100
> @@ -388,6 +388,9 @@ void start_secondary(void *unused)
>  
>      microcode_resume_cpu(cpu);
>  
> +    /* Record boot apic state */
> +    record_boot_APIC_mode();
> +
>      wmb();
>      startup_cpu_idle_loop();
>  }
> diff -r f531ed84b066 -r 62a8ce6595ad xen/include/asm-x86/apic.h
> --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/apic.h      Tue May 17 17:32:19 2011 +0100
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/apic.h      Wed May 18 19:00:13 2011 +0100
> @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@
>  #define IO_APIC_REDIR_DEST_LOGICAL   0x00800
>  #define IO_APIC_REDIR_DEST_PHYSICAL  0x00000
>  
> +/* Possible APIC states */
> +enum apic_mode { APIC_MODE_INVALID,  /* Not set yet */
> +                 APIC_MODE_DISABLED, /* Some bioses disable by default for 
> compatability */
> +                 APIC_MODE_XAPIC,    /* xAPIC mode - default upon chipset 
> reset */
> +                 APIC_MODE_X2APIC    /* x2APIC mode - common for large smp 
> machines */
> +};
> +
> +/* PerCPU local APIC boot mode - so we can taredown to bios state */

taredown?

> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(enum apic_mode, apic_boot_mode);
> +
>  extern u8 apic_verbosity;
>  extern bool_t x2apic_enabled;
>  extern bool_t directed_eoi_enabled;
> @@ -203,6 +213,7 @@ extern void disable_APIC_timer(void);
>  extern void enable_APIC_timer(void);
>  extern int lapic_suspend(void);
>  extern int lapic_resume(void);
> +extern void record_boot_APIC_mode(void);
>  
>  extern int check_nmi_watchdog (void);
>  
> 
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