Re: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/acpi: Ignore invalid x2APIC entries

[Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)]

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On 22.11.23 23:19, John Sperbeck wrote:
> I have a platform with both LOCAL_APIC and LOCAL_X2APIC entries for
> each CPU.  However, the ids for the LOCAL_APIC entries are all
> invalid ids of 255, so they have always been skipped in acpi_parse_lapic()
> by this code from f3bf1dbe64b6 ("x86/acpi: Prevent LAPIC id 0xff from being
> accounted"):
> 
>     /* Ignore invalid ID */
>     if (processor->id == 0xff)
>             return 0;
> 
> With the change in this thread, the return value of 0 means that the
> 'count' variable in acpi_parse_entries_array() is incremented.  The
> positive return value means that 'has_lapic_cpus' is set, even though
> no entries were actually matched.  Then, when the MADT is iterated
> with acpi_parse_x2apic(), the x2apic entries with ids less than 255
> are skipped and most of my CPUs aren't recognized.
> 
> I think the original version of this change was okay for this case in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pm4bp54z.ffs@tglx/T/
> 
> P.S. I could be convinced that the MADT for my platform is somewhat
> ill-formed and that I'm relying on pre-existing behavior.  I'm not
> well-versed enough in the topic to know for sure.

To be sure the issue doesn't fall through the cracks unnoticed, I'm
adding it to regzbot, the Linux kernel regression tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced 8e9c42d776d6
#regzbot title x86/acpi: CPU core aren't recognized
#regzbot ignore-activity

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