Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git9 doesn't boot on Macintel

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 13:30:44 EST


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yunghai,
>> I had partial success with your proposed patch. The MacPro2
>> identifier doesn't appear to be correct for a second generation
>> MacBook Pro so I had to comment out the line...
>>
>> DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacPro2"),
>>
>> With that change, a patched 2.6.26-git2 kernel now uses MMCONFIG.
>> However I still see the same hang. The boot messages I see on
>> screen are...
>>
>> ACPI: bus type pci registered
>> PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 63
>> PCI: MCFG area at f0000000 reserved in E820
>> PCI: Using MMCONFIG at f0000000 - f3ffffff
>> PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
>> ACPI: EC: EC description table is found, configuring boot EC
>> ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode
>> ACPI: BIOS_OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI
>> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
>> ACPI: (S0 S3 S4 S5)
>> ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
>> ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
>> ACPI: EC: drivers started in interrupt mode
>> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000.00)
>> pci 0000:00:1f.00 : quirk region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
>> pci 0000.00:1f:00 : quirk region 0500-053f claimed by ICH6 GPIO
>>
>> ...at which the boot hangs. On the positive side, I was able to fully
>> boot if I passed 'pci=noacpi' to the kernel options (which never worked
>> before with 2.6.26). I can post the dmesg from a noacpi boot of the
>> patched kernel to my bugzilla report tonight if it would help debug the
>> issues we are still seeing with ACPI.
>> One thing I notice with the patched kernel (without noacpi) is that I
>> only see buses 0 - 63. A normal boot of 2.6.25.10 on this machine (or
>> 2.6.26 reportedly on a MacMini) always shows buses 0 - 255. Could this
>> be related to the ACPI breakage? Let me know if I can do anything
>> else to debug the ACPI issues under MMCONFIG.
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:36:21AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Justin Mattock
>>> <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> I looked at your dmesg from 2.6.25.10
>>> >>
>>> >> it tried to use mmconfig, and later fall back to conf1, because
>>> >> 1. your MCFG said it support bus [0,255], and range will be
>>> >> [0xf0000000, 0xffffffff]
>>> >> 2. firmware only reserve [0xf0000000, 0xf4000000)
>>> >>
>>> >> and 2.5.25 will not check acp reserved range.
>>> >>
>>> >> from 2.6.26, it will check if the [0xf0000000, 0xffffffff] is reserved
>>> >> via acpi dsdt _crs?
>>> >> it will fail too.
>>> >>
>>> >> So MCFG table is broken.
>>> >>
>>> >> You need to get firmware update from your vendor.
>>> >>
>>> >> or we need to put that system on DMI check to change end_bus_number
>>> >> from 0xff to 0x3f
>>> >>
>>> >> ps: mem=2g will not work, it will can not change mcfg table etc... you
>>> >> need take out 1G ram out.
>>> >>
>>> >> YH
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Well shit man, that sucks...
>>> > how hard is it to do a DMI check?
>>> > regards;
>>>
>>> please check attached patch... not sure the
>>> DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacPro2"), is right or not.
>>>
>>> YH
>>
>>> [PATCH] x86,pci: dmi check for mackpro 2.2 mmconf
>>>
>>> change the mconf bus range from [0,0xff] to to [0, 0x3f]
>>> to match range [0xf0000000, 0xf4000000) in e820 tables.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/pci/mmconfig-shared.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/pci/mmconfig-shared.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/pci/mmconfig-shared.c
>>> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/pci/mmconfig-shared.c
>>> @@ -374,6 +374,40 @@ reject:
>>>
>>> static int __initdata known_bridge;
>>>
>>> +static int __devinit check_mmconf(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
>>> +{
>>> + typeof(pci_mmcfg_config[0]) *cfg;
>>> +
>>> + if ((pci_mmcfg_config_num != 1) ||
>>> + (pci_mmcfg_config == NULL) ||
>>> + (pci_mmcfg_config[0].address == 0))
>>> + return 1;
>>> +
>>> + cfg = &pci_mmcfg_config[0];
>>> +
>>> + if (cfg->start_bus_number == 0 && cfg->end_bus_number > 0x3f)
>>> + cfg->end_bus_number = 0x3f;
>>> +
>>> + return 0;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static struct dmi_system_id __devinitdata mmconf_dmi_table[] = {
>>> + {
>>> + .callback = check_mmconf,
>>> + .ident = "Apple",
>>> + .matches = {
>>> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple"),
>>> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacPro2"),
>>> + },
>>> + },
>>> + {}
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +void __init check_mmconf_dmi(void)
>>> +{
>>> + dmi_check_system(mmconf_dmi_table);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> static void __init __pci_mmcfg_init(int early)
>>> {
>>> /* MMCONFIG disabled */
>>> @@ -395,6 +429,7 @@ static void __init __pci_mmcfg_init(int
>>>
>>> if (!known_bridge) {
>>> acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_MCFG, acpi_parse_mcfg);
>>> + check_mmconf_dmi();
>>> pci_mmcfg_reject_broken(early);
>>> }
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Hmm Im not seeing MMCONFIG anywhere in dmesg
> I'm wondering if I should apply this patch as well.
> this is what I'm seeing with dmesg | grep MCFG:
>
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3FEF8000, 003C (r1 APPLE Apple00 1
> Loki 5F)

can you boot with debug with your 2g system with current linus tree or tip tree?

YH
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