Re: `do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector` on ASRock E350M1

[Tom Lendacky]

On 2/26/2018 10:37 AM, Morton, Eric wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> Yazen dug out PLAT-21393 as sounding like this issue. I haven't had a chance to digest it.

Yes, internally to AMD, that was the bug that tracked the issue I was
referring to.

Thanks,
Tom

> 
> Eric
> 
> ïOn 2/26/18, 10:31 AM, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:14:10AM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>     > On 2/24/2018 2:59 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>     > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Paul Menzel wrote:
>     > >> Am 23.02.2018 um 20:09 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
>     > >>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 07:18:34PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>     > >>>> Borislav is seeing similar issues on larger AMD machines. The interrupt
>     > >>>> seems to come from BIOS/microcode during bringup of secondary CPUs and we
>     > >>>> have no idea why.
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Paul, can you boot 4.14 and grep your dmesg for something like:
>     > >>>
>     > >>> [    0.000000] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. >
>     > >>> ?
>     > >>
>     > >> No, I do not see that. Please find the logs attached.
>     > > 
>     > > From your 4.14 log:
>     > > 
>     > > Feb 19 09:48:06.843173 kodi kernel: CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=e9b0a000 soft=e9b0c000
>     > > Feb 19 09:48:06.843216 kodi kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>     > 
>     > I think I remember seeing something like this previously and it turned out
>     > to be a BIOS bug.  All the AP's were enabled to work with the legacy 8259
>     > interrupt controller.  In an SMP system, only one processor in the system
>     > should be configured to handle legacy 8259 interrupts (ExtINT delivery
>     > mode - see Intel's SDM, Volume 3, section 10.5.1, Delivery Mode).  Once
>     > the BIOS was fixed, the spurious interrupt message went away.
>     > 
>     > I believe at some point during UEFI, the APs were exposed to an ExtINT
>     > interrupt.  Since they were configured to handle ExtINT delivery mode and
>     > interrupts were not yet enabled, the interrupt was left pending.  When the
>     > APs were started by the OS and interrupts were enabled, the interrupt
>     > triggered. Since the original pending interrupt was handled by the BSP,
>     > there was no longer an interrupt actually pending, so the 8259 responds
>     > with IRQ 7 when queried by the OS.  This occurred for each AP.
>     
>     Interesting - is this something that can happen on Zen too?
>     
>     Because I have such reports too.
>     
>     -- 
>     Regards/Gruss,
>         Boris.
>     
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