Re: Early boot regression from f0551af0213 ("x86/topology: Ignore non-present APIC IDs in a present package")

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Apr 18 2024 - 04:27:29 EST


On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 05:21:43PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> Hi! I just wanted to let you know that one of the desktops I use for
> testing no longer seems to boot after this commit (just finished
> bisecting and confirming). The machine hangs before it gets to fbcon,
> and the error I'm seeing in the early boot console is as such:
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: timer doesn't work through Interrupt-remapped IO-APIC
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc5Lyude-Test+ #20
> Hardware name: MSI MS-7A39/A320M GAMING PRO (MS-7A39), BIOS 1.10 01/22/2019

Looks like an AMD chipset. Thomas did fix some fallout from the topo
rework on AMD, can you test the tip/master branch pls?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/

Thx.

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