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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Feeney <james@nurealm.net>,
	linux-smp@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/thermal: Fix LVT thermal setup for SMI delivery mode
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 13:56:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YK+JC9qjkEuz/aaz@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7io8kh5.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 01:49:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> That works, but TBH, it's a hack....

Yeah, it restores to the previous behavior.

> What I really fail to understand is how disabling that LVT entry makes
> the machine lock up.

The observation is is that on James' box, *sometimes* - not always - it
would softlockup on CPU0 without this early LVT thermal read.

I can try to reproduce on the box I have here, lemme see...

> Also if disabling this entry is causing the BIOS/SMM gunk to go south, then
> disabling CONFIG_X86_THERMAL_VECTOR should have the same effect.
> 
> Which made me look at other places like lapic_suspend/resume which does
> the save/restore Kconfig conditional as well.

The fact that it doesn't reproduce always shows that there's something
else at play too. As I said in the commit message: "Those soft lockups
are not 100% reproducible and the reason for that can only be speculated
as no one tells you what SMM does."

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8a9599b2-f4fe-af9b-90f5-af39c315ec2f@nurealm.net>
2021-05-17  8:32 ` linux 5.12 - fails to boot - soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! - RIP smp_call_function_single Borislav Petkov
2021-05-19  3:58   ` James Feeney
2021-05-19 11:12     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-19 20:03       ` James Feeney
2021-05-19 21:18         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-20  3:12           ` James Feeney
2021-05-20  9:21             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-21 22:11               ` James Feeney
2021-05-22  9:06                 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-22 23:28                   ` James Feeney
2021-05-23 17:05                     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-23 23:02                       ` James Feeney
2021-05-24  7:51                         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-25  4:02                           ` James Feeney
2021-05-27 10:31                             ` [PATCH] x86/thermal: Fix LVT thermal setup for SMI delivery mode Borislav Petkov
2021-05-27 11:49                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-27 11:56                                 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-05-27 18:54                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-28  8:23                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-28 11:19                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-31 18:26                                       ` James Feeney
2021-05-27 18:09                               ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2021-05-27 19:01                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-27 20:28                                   ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2021-05-28  7:05                               ` James Feeney
2021-05-31 21:46   ` [tip: x86/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov

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