Re: x2apic boot failure on recent sandy bridge system

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> so kernel can not enable interrput remapping, then it will panic..
> 
> [    0.085717] Kernel panic - not syncing: x2apic: enabled by BIOS but
> kernel init failed.
> [    0.093697] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-rc5 #2
> [    0.099337] Call Trace:
> [    0.101788]  [<ffffffff8137b7ce>] ? panic+0x95/0x18e
> [    0.106755]  [<ffffffff81016259>] ? __ioapic_write_entry+0x16/0x32
> [    0.112925]  [<ffffffff8152d5bf>] ? enable_IR_x2apic+0x19a/0x1d7
> [    0.118913]  [<ffffffff8152f281>] ? default_setup_apic_routing+0xd/0x71
> [    0.125506]  [<ffffffff8152c536>] ? native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x2f1/0x325
> [    0.132102]  [<ffffffff81522abf>] ? kernel_init+0x46/0x10f
> [    0.137571]  [<ffffffff813841f4>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [    0.143650]  [<ffffffff81522a79>] ? start_kernel+0x341/0x341
> [    0.149297]  [<ffffffff813841f0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
> 
> your bios should not enable x2apic in this case.
> 
> please get one bios update.
> 
> also I have one old patch that could disable apic. but it is 
> not get merged and it may not be applied to current tree.

What we want is not a nox2apic option but a good fall-back 
mechanism that is able to boot the system automatically and 
safely, without the user having to tweak *anything* ...

Tanks,

	Ingo
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