Antw: Re: Some problems with HP DL380 G8 BIOS and SLES11 SP3

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 14.08.2014 um 19:46 in Nachricht
<20140814174658.GV49576@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:22:17PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Running the current SLES11 SP3 kernel on a HP DL380 G8 server, there are 
> some kernel messages that indicate a bug either in the kernel or in the HP 
> BIOS. Maybe someone can explain, so I can try to get it fixed whatever party 
> broke it...
>> 
>> Linux kernel is "3.0.101-0.35-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.4 
> [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973]" (latest).
>> HP server is "HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, BIOS P70 02/10/2014" (latest)
> 
> Yes, it is because you are letting the firmware dynamically control your
> cpu frequency.  In order to accomplish they need to use a perf counter or
> two, hence the conflict.  Set the firmware setting to OS control and the
> problem goes away.  Contact HP for those instructions, they are very aware
> of this problem and recommend OS control to all high end servers.

Hi!

Thanks for answering, but the BIOS has set power management to "OS control" (see attachment). So I guess it must be something different.

Regards,
Ulrich

> 
> Cheers,
> Don
> 
>> 
>> During ACPI init I see:
>> [...]
>> Reserving 128MB of memory at 752MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 132095MB)
>> ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f4f00 00024 (v02 HP    )
>> ACPI: XSDT 00000000bddaed00 000D4 (v01 HP     ProLiant 00000002   322? 
> 0000162E)
>> ACPI: FACP 00000000bddaee40 000F4 (v03 HP     ProLiant 00000002   322? 
> 0000162E)
>> ACPI Warning: Invalid length for Pm1aControlBlock: 32, using default 16 
> (2011041
>> 3/tbfadt-611)
>> ACPI Warning: Invalid length for Pm2ControlBlock: 32, using default 8 
> (20110413/
>> tbfadt-611)
>> ACPI: DSDT 00000000bddaef40 026DC (v01 HP         DSDT 00000001 INTL 
> 20030228)
>> ACPI: FACS 00000000bddac140 00040
>> ACPI: SPCR 00000000bddac180 00050 (v01 HP     SPCRRBSU 00000001   322? 
> 0000162E)
>> ACPI: MCFG 00000000bddac200 0003C (v01 HP     ProLiant 00000001      
> 00000000)
>> [...]
>> 
>> HPET id 0 under DRHD base 0xf4ffe000
>> BIOS requests to not use x2apic
>> Use 'intremap=no_x2apic_optout' to override BIOS request
>> Enabled IRQ remapping in xapic mode
>> x2apic not enabled, IRQ remapping is in xapic mode
>> Switched APIC routing to physical flat.
>> ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
>> CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz stepping 04
>> Performance Events: PEBS fmt1+, 16-deep LBR, IvyBridge events, Broken BIOS 
> detec
>> ted, complain to your hardware vendor.
>> [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 330)
>> Intel PMU driver.
>> ... version:                3
>> ... bit width:              48
>> ... generic registers:      4
>> ... value mask:             0000ffffffffffff
>> ... max period:             000000007fffffff
>> ... fixed-purpose events:   3
>> ... event mask:             000000070000000f
>> NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
>> Booting Node   0, Processors  #1
>> [...]
>> 
>>  pci0000:00: Requesting ACPI _OSC control (0x1d)
>>  pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_SUPPORT), returned control mask: 
> 0x00
>> ACPI _OSC control for PCIe not granted, disabling ASPM
>> [...]
>> 
>>  pci0000:20: Requesting ACPI _OSC control (0x1d)
>>  pci0000:20: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_SUPPORT), returned control mask: 
> 0x00
>> ACPI _OSC control for PCIe not granted, disabling ASPM
>> [...]
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ulrich
>> P.S. Please CC: me, as I'm not on LKML...
>> 
>> 
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