Re: [LKP] [x86/pci] 7ffb31888c: PANIC:early_exception

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 05:39:36 EST


On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Pu Wen wrote:
> On 2018/9/20 8:26, Rong Chen wrote:
> > On 09/19/2018 09:53 PM, Pu Wen wrote:
> > > I cannot reproduce this panic on Hygon Dhyana platform. I tired lkp-tests
> > > both in Ubuntu 16.04 (with gcc-5) and Ubuntu 18.04 (with gcc-7).
> > > What kind of host do you use to run the qemu? A Intel one or AMD one?
> > It's a Intel one,
> >
> > model: Nehalem-EX
> > memory: 224G
> > nr_node: 4
> > nr_cpu: 64
> > nr_socket: 4
> > brand: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7560 @ 2.27GHz
>
> I reproduced the PANIC by running lkp-tests with a Intel machine.
>
> The reason is that the function early_is_amd_nb is called even if
> running on Intel machine. At this case the misc_ids is NULL so the
> PANIC occur.
>
> I'll rework a patch to solve this problem, either restore the default
> value of misc_ids with the original AMD one or not call early_is_amd_nb
> on Intel platform.

Return when !AMD and !HYGON is the right thing to do. No point in checking
device ids which cannot happen in the first place.

Thanks,

tglx