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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:33:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1CDE4F0-06DB-414E-AA53-415D35D6D87C@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b079111-3185-e345-acc4-40e72fdd6e92@amd.com>



On 21 December 2021 22:25:35 GMT, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> wrote:
>On 12/20/21 3:47 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> On 12/20/21 3:29 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 12:54 -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>>> Took the tree back to commit df9726cb7178 and then applied this change.
>>>> I'm unable to trigger any kind of failure with this change.
>>>
>>> Hm... I fired up an EC2 m6a.48xlarge instance (192 CPUs) to play with.
>>>
>>> I can reproduce your triple-fault on SMP bringup, but only with kexec.
>>> And I basically can't get *anything* to kexec without that triple-
>>> fault. Not a clean 5.16-rc2, not the Fedora stock 5.14.10 kernel.
>>>
>>> If I *boot* instead of kexec, I have not yet seen the problem at all.
>>> This is using Legacy BIOS not UEFI.
>> 
>> Let me try with a legacy BIOS and see if I can repro. Might not be until 
>> tomorrow, though, since I had to let someone borrow the machine.
>
>I still encounter the issue using a legacy BIOS (SeaBIOS).

I haven't had much time to play but have seen it with a stock kernel at least as far back as v5.0. They all triple-fault on bringing up secondary CPUs, on kexec.

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-21 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-15 14:56 [PATCH v3 0/9] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of cluster_mask David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] cpu/hotplug: Move idle_thread_get() to <linux/smpboot.h> David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] x86/smpboot: Reference count on smpboot_setup_warm_reset_vector() David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up into separate phases and document them David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs David Woodhouse
2021-12-16 14:24   ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-16 18:24     ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-16 19:00       ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-16 19:20         ` David Woodhouse
2022-01-29 12:04           ` David Woodhouse
2022-01-31 13:59             ` Borislav Petkov
2022-02-01 10:25               ` David Woodhouse
2022-02-01 10:56                 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-02-01 12:39                   ` David Woodhouse
2022-02-01 12:56                     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-02-01 13:02                       ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] x86/mtrr: Avoid repeated save of MTRRs on boot-time CPU bringup David Woodhouse
2021-12-15 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] x86/smpboot: Serialize topology updates for secondary bringup David Woodhouse
2021-12-16 16:27 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 Tom Lendacky
2021-12-16 19:24   ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-16 22:52     ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-17  0:13       ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-17 10:09         ` Igor Mammedov
2021-12-17 15:40           ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-20 17:10           ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-20 18:54             ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-20 21:29               ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-20 21:47                 ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-21 22:25                   ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-21 22:33                     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2021-12-17 17:48         ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-17 19:11           ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-17 19:26             ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-17 20:15               ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-17 19:46             ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-17 20:13               ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-17 20:55                 ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-17 22:48                   ` David Woodhouse
2022-01-28  9:54                   ` David Woodhouse
2022-01-28 21:40                     ` Sean Christopherson
2022-01-28 21:48                       ` David Woodhouse
2022-01-29  9:22                       ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-16 19:52   ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-16 19:55     ` Tom Lendacky
2021-12-16 19:59       ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-27 16:57 ` Paul Menzel
2021-12-28 11:34   ` Paul Menzel
2021-12-28 14:18     ` David Woodhouse
2021-12-29 13:18       ` Paul Menzel
2021-12-29 13:54         ` David Woodhouse
2022-02-14 13:45           ` Paul Menzel
2022-04-21 10:00             ` Mimoja
2022-04-22 21:19               ` Tom Lendacky
2022-06-01  8:30                 ` David Woodhouse

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