Re: PROBLEM: 4.15.0-rc3 APIC causes lockups on Core 2 Duo laptop

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Alexandru Chirvasitu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 05:10:28PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Alexandru Chirvasitu wrote:
> > > Actually, it decided to cooperate for just long enough for me to get
> > > the dmesg out. Attached.
> > > 
> > > This is from the kernel you asked about: Dou's patch + yours, i.e. the
> > > latest one in that git log I just sent, booted up with 'apic=debug'.
> > 
> > Ok. As I suspected that warning does not trigger. I would have been
> > massively surprised if that happened. So Dou's patch is just a red herring
> > and just might change the timing enough to make the problem 'hide'.
> > 
> > Can you try something completely different please?
> > 
> > Just use plain Linus tree without any additional patches on top and disable
> > CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE, i.e. select CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC.
> > 
> > If that works, then reenable it and add 'nohz=off' to the kernel command
> > line.
> >
> 
> No go here I'm afraid:
> 
> Linus' clean 4.15-rc5 compiled with CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC exhibits the
> familiar behaviour: lockups, sometimes instant upon trying to log in,
> sometimes logging me in and freaking out seconds later.

Ok. So it's not the issue I had in mind. 

Back to some of the interesting bits in the logs:

[   36.017942] spurious APIC interrupt through vector ff on CPU#0, should never happen.

Does that message ever show up in 4.14 or 4.9?

Thanks,

	tglx