Re: [PATCH] PNP ACPI: Use real gsi

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, November 04, 2011, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In 2.6.35 a lot cleanups in this area (not pnp, but x86 ioapic setup) have
> been introduced.
> On an IBM Xseries (x3850) this caused the machine to freeze around when
> the init userspace process is tried to get started.
> The reason is that the timer interrupt is not set up correctly on this machine.
> 
> I could bisect the issue to one of ioapic cleanups introduced in 2.6.35:
> commit a4384df3e24579d6292a1b3b41d500349948f30b
> 
> While on this machine the problem was an interrupt timer issue,
> there may be other platforms with different interrupt issues relatd to this
> problem. Kernel logs with similar IOAPIC errors inside pnpacpi setup might
> need this patch:
>   pnp 00:04: [io  0x02f8-0x02ff]
>   IOAPIC[1]: Invalid reference to IRQ 0
>   pnp 00:04: [irq 2]
>   pnp 00:04: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0501 (active)
> 
> Yinghai came up with this patch which fixes the problem for me.
> Looks like the bisected commit is correct, but the pnp layer has been
> overseen.
> 
> Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx
> CC: lenb@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CC: H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c b/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c
> index bbf3edd..dad5da9 100644
> --- a/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c
> +++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,14 @@ static void pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource(struct pnp_dev *dev,
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
> +	/*
> +	 * Convert it back to real gsi
> +	 */
> +	if (acpi_irq_model == ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_IOAPIC)
> +		acpi_isa_irq_to_gsi(gsi, &gsi);
> +#endif
> +

Have you checked which case in irq_to_gsi() really matters?

Rafael


>  	/*
>  	 * in IO-APIC mode, use overrided attribute. Two reasons:
>  	 * 1. BIOS bug in DSDT
> 

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