Sparseirq got introduced in v2.6.28 and Thomas did a huge cleanup
around v2.6.38 that eliminated basically all disadvantages
of it.
So we can remove non-sparseirq support now and simplify
our IRQ degrees of freedom a bit.
Suggested-and-acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E95E21D.6090200@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are three choices:
vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.
vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path. The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX. This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.
vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The MCE handler uses a special vector for self IPI to invoke
post-emergency processing in an interrupt context, e.g. call an
NMI-unsafe function, wakeup loggers, schedule time-consuming work for
recovery, etc.
This mechanism is now generalized by the following commit:
> e360adbe29
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Thu Oct 14 14:01:34 2010 +0800
>
> irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
>
> Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
> most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
> system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
:
So change to use provided generic mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DEED6B2.6080005@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
There's a fair amount of code in the vsyscall page. It contains
a syscall instruction (in the gettimeofday fallback) and who
knows what will happen if an exploit jumps into the middle of
some other code.
Reduce the risk by replacing the vsyscalls with short magic
incantations that cause the kernel to emulate the real
vsyscalls. These incantations are useless if entered in the
middle.
This causes vsyscalls to be a little more expensive than real
syscalls. Fortunately sensible programs don't use them.
The only exception is time() which is still called by glibc
through the vsyscall - but calling time() millions of times
per second is not sensible. glibc has this fixed in the
development tree.
This patch is not perfect: the vread_tsc and vread_hpet
functions are still at a fixed address. Fixing that might
involve making alternative patching work in the vDSO.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e64e1b3c64858820d12c48fa739efbd1485e79d5.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
[ Removed the CONFIG option - it's simpler to just do it unconditionally. Tidied up the code as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add extra parentheses around a couple of definitions introduced
by "x86: Cleanup vector usage" and used in assembly macro
arguments, and remove spaces. Without that old (2.16.1) gas
would see more macro arguments than were actually specified.
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6F81B10200007800034B0B@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make the maxium TLB invalidate vectors depend on NR_CPUS linearly,
with a maximum of 32 vectors.
We currently only have 8 vectors for TLB invalidation and that is clearly
inadequate. If we have a lot of CPUs, the CPUs need share the 8 vectors and
tlbstate_lock is used to protect them. flush_tlb_page() is
heavily used in page reclaim, which will cause a lot of lock
contention for tlbstate_lock.
Andi Kleen suggested increasing the vectors number to 32, which should be
good for current typical systems to reduce the tlbstate_lock contention.
My test system has 4 sockets and 64G memory, and 64 CPUs. My
workload creates 64 processes. Each process mmap reads a big
empty sparse file. The total size of the files are 2*total_mem,
so this will cause a lot of page reclaim.
Below is the result I get from perf call-graph profiling:
without the patch:
------------------
24.25% usemem [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
|
--- _raw_spin_lock
|
|--42.15%-- native_flush_tlb_others
with the patch:
------------------
14.96% usemem [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
|
--- _raw_spin_lock
|--13.89%-- native_flush_tlb_others
So this heavily reduces the tlbstate_lock contention.
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1295232727.1949.709.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cleanup the vector usage and make them continuous if possible.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295232722.1949.707.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Set the callback to receive evtchns from Xen, using the
callback vector delivery mechanism.
The traditional way for receiving event channel notifications from Xen
is via the interrupts from the platform PCI device.
The callback vector is a newer alternative that allow us to receive
notifications on any vcpu and doesn't need any PCI support: we allocate
a vector exclusively to receive events, in the vector handler we don't
need to interact with the vlapic, therefore we avoid a VMEXIT.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
After talking to some more folks inside intel (Peter Anvin, Asit Mallick),
the safest option (for future compatibility etc) seen was to use vector 0x20
for IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR instead of using vector 0x1f (which is documented as
reserved vector in the Intel IA32 manuals).
Also we don't need to reserve the entire privilege level (all 16 vectors in
the priority bucket that IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR falls into), as the
x86 architecture (section 10.9.3 in SDM Vol3a) specifies that with in the
priority level, the higher the vector number the higher the priority.
And hence we don't need to reserve the complete priority level 0x20-0x2f for
the IRQ migration cleanup logic.
So change the IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR to 0x20 and allow 0x21-0x2f to be used
for device interrupts. 0x30-0x3f will be used for ISA interrupts (these
also can be migrated in the context of IOAPIC and hence need to be at a higher
priority level than IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR).
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100114002118.521826763@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
We want to use a vector-assignment sequence that avoids stumbling onto
0x80 earlier in the sequence, in order to improve the spread of
vectors across priority levels on machines with a small number of
interrupt sources. Right now, this is done by simply making the first
vector (0x31 or 0x41) completely unusable. This is unnecessary; all
we need is to start assignment at a +1 offset, we don't actually need
to prohibit the usage of this vector once we have wrapped around.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B426550.6000209@kernel.org>
Reclaim 16 IDT vectors and make them available for general allocation.
Reclaim vectors 0x20-0x2f by reallocating the IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR
to vector 0x1f. This is in the range of vector numbers that is
officially reserved for the CPU (for exceptions), however, the use of
the APIC to generate any vector 0x10 or above is documented, and the
CPU internally can receive any vector number (the legacy BIOS uses INT
0x08-0x0f for interrupts, as messed up as that is.)
Since IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR has to be alone in the lowest-numbered
priority level (block of 16), this effectively enables us to reclaim
an otherwise-unusable APIC priority level and put it to use.
Since this is a transient kernel-only allocation we can change it at
any time, and if/when there is an exception at vector 0x1f this
assignment needs to be changed as part of OS enabling that new feature.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B4284C6.9030107@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
I have a system with lots of igb and ixgbe, when iov/vf are
enabled for them, we hit the limit of 3064.
when system has 20 pcie installed, and one card has 2
functions, and one function needs 64 msi-x,
may need 20 * 2 * 64 = 2560 for msi-x
but if iov and vf are enabled
may need 20 * 2 * 64 * 3 = 7680 for msi-x
assume system with 5 ioapic, nr_irqs_gsi will be 120.
NR_CPUS = 512, and nr_cpu_ids = 128
will have NR_IRQS = 256 + 512 * 64 = 33024
will have nr_irqs = 120 + 8 * 128 + 120 * 64 = 8824
When SPARSE_IRQ is not set, there is no increase with kernel data
size.
when NR_CPUS=128, and SPARSE_IRQ is set:
text data bss dec hex filename
21837444 4216564 12480736 38534744 24bfe58 vmlinux.before
21837442 4216580 12480736 38534758 24bfe66 vmlinux.after
when NR_CPUS=4096, and SPARSE_IRQ is set
text data bss dec hex filename
21878619 5610244 13415392 40904255 270263f vmlinux.before
21878617 5610244 13415392 40904253 270263d vmlinux.after
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B398ECD.1080506@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Interrupt vector 0xec has been doubly defined in irq_vectors.h
It seems arbitrary whether LOCAL_PENDING_VECTOR or
UV_BAU_MESSAGE is the higher number. As long as they are
unique. If they are not unique we'll hit a BUG in
alloc_system_vector().
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <E1NJ9Pe-0004P7-0Q@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add MCE_VECTOR for the #MC exception.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
For some time each panic() called with interrupts disabled
triggered the !irqs_disabled() WARN_ON in smp_call_function(),
producing ugly backtraces and confusing users.
This is a common situation with machine checks for example which
tend to call panic with interrupts disabled, but will also hit
in other situations e.g. panic during early boot. In fact it
means that panic cannot be called in many circumstances, which
would be bad.
This all started with the new fancy queued smp_call_function,
which is then used by the shutdown path to shut down the other
CPUs.
On closer examination it turned out that the fancy RCU
smp_call_function() does lots of things not suitable in a panic
situation anyways, like allocating memory and relying on complex
system state.
I originally tried to patch this over by checking for panic
there, but it was quite complicated and the original patch
was also not very popular. This also didn't fix some of the
underlying complexity problems.
The new code in post 2.6.29 tries to patch around this by
checking for oops_in_progress, but that is not enough to make
this fully safe and I don't think that's a real solution
because panic has to be reliable.
So instead use an own vector to reboot. This makes the reboot
code extremly straight forward, which is definitely a big plus
in a panic situation where it is important to avoid relying on
too much kernel state. The new simple code is also safe to be
called from interupts off region because it is very very simple.
There can be situations where it is important that panic
is reliable. For example on a fatal machine check the panic
is needed to get the system up again and running as quickly
as possible. So it's important that panic is reliable and
all function it calls simple.
This is why I came up with this simple vector scheme.
It's very hard to beat in simplicity. Vectors are not
particularly precious anymore since all big systems are
using per CPU vectors.
Another possibility would have been to use an NMI similar
to kdump, but there is still the problem that NMIs don't
work reliably on some systems due to BIOS issues. NMIs
would have been able to stop CPUs running with interrupts
off too. In the sake of universal reliability I opted for
using a non NMI vector for now.
I put the reboot vector into the highest priority bucket of
the APIC vectors and moved the 64bit UV_BAU message down
instead into the next lower priority.
[ Impact: bug fix, fixes an old regression ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Machine checks support waking up the mcelog daemon quickly.
The original wake up code for this was pretty ugly, relying on
a idle notifier and a special process flag. The reason it did
it this way is that the machine check handler is not subject
to normal interrupt locking rules so it's not safe
to call wake_up(). Instead it set a process flag
and then either did the wakeup in the syscall return
or in the idle notifier.
This patch adds a new "bootstraping" method as replacement.
The idea is that the handler checks if it's in a state where
it is unsafe to call wake_up(). If it's safe it calls it directly.
When it's not safe -- that is it interrupted in a critical
section with interrupts disables -- it uses a new "self IPI" to trigger
an IPI to its own CPU. This can be done safely because IPI
triggers are atomic with some care. The IPI is raised
once the interrupts are reenabled and can then safely call
wake_up().
When APICs are disabled the event is just queued and will be picked up
eventually by the next polling timer. I think that's a reasonable
compromise, since it should only happen quite rarely.
Contains fixes from Ying Huang.
[ solve conflict on irqinit, make it work on 32bit (entry_arch.h) - HS ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Remove the IRQ (non-NMI) handling bits as NMI will be used always.
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090603051255.GA2791@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Enable the 64bit MCE_INTEL code (CMCI, thermal interrupts) for 32bit NEW_MCE.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: cleanup
We can remove some #ifdefs if we define IA32_SYSCALL_VECTOR on 32-bit.
Reviewed-by Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement set_perf_counter_pending() with a self-IPI so that it will
run ASAP in a usable context.
For now use a second IRQ vector, because the primary vector pokes
the apic in funny ways that seem to confuse things.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.724626696@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch allocates a system interrupt vector for various platform
specific uses.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090304185605.GA24419@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Most of the vector layout on 32-bit and 64-bit is identical now,
so eliminate the duplicated enumeration of the vectors.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a slot for the performance monitoring interrupt. Not yet used
by any subsystem - but the hardware has it. (This eases integration
with performance monitoring code.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: less contention when issuing invalidate IPI, cleanup
Make x86_32 use the same tlb code as 64bit. The 64bit code uses
multiple IPI vectors for tlb shootdown to reduce contention. This
patch makes x86_32 allocate the same 8 IPIs as x86_64 and share the
code paths.
Note that the usage of asmlinkage is inconsistent for x86_32 and 64
and calls for further cleanup. This has been noted with a FIXME
comment in tlb_64.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: clean up, ipi vector number reordering for x86_32
Make the following changes to prepare for tlb merge.
* reorder x86_32 ip vectors
* adjust tlb_32.c and tlb_64.c such that their logics coincide exactly
- on spurious invalidate ipi, tlb_32 acks the irq
- tlb_64 now has proper memory barriers around clearing
flush_cpumask (no change in generated code)
* unexport flush_tlb_page from tlb_32.c, there's no user
* use unsigned int for cpu id
* drop unnecessary includes from tlb_64.c
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: Reduce memory usage.
This is the second half of the changes to make the irq_desc_ptrs be
variable sized based on nr_cpu_ids. This is done by adding a new
"max_nr_irqs" macro to irq_vectors.h (and a dummy in irqnr.h) to
return a max NR_IRQS value based on NR_CPUS or nr_cpu_ids.
This necessitated moving the define of MAX_IO_APICS to a separate
file (asm/apicnum.h) so it could be included without the baggage
of the other asm/apicdef.h declarations.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Implement performance counters for x86 Intel CPUs.
It's simplified right now: the PERFMON CPU feature is assumed,
which is available in Core2 and later Intel CPUs.
The design is flexible to be extended to more CPU types as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new feature
Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.
To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.
When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).
This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix warning message when PARAVIRT is set in config
Remove stale #ifdef components from our IRQ sizing logic.
x86/Voyager is the only holdout.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make NR_IRQS big enough for system with lots of apic/pins
If lots of IO_APIC's are there (or can be there), size the same way
as 64-bit, depending on MAX_IO_APICS and NR_CPUS.
This fixes the boot problem reported by Ben Hutchings on a 32-bit
server with 5 IO-APICs and 240 IO-APIC pins.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
so we can merge io_apic_32.c and io_apic_64.c
v2: Use cpu_online_map as target cpus for bigsmp, just like 64-bit is doing.
Also remove some unused TARGET_CPUS macro.
v3: need to check if desc is null in smp_irq_move_cleanup
also migration needs to reset vector too, so copy __target_IO_APIC_irq
from 64bit.
(the duplication will go away once the two files are unified.)
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The UV TLB shootdown mechanism needs a system interrupt vector.
Its vector had been hardcoded as 200, but needs to moved to the reserved
system vector range so that it does not collide with some device vector.
This is still temporary until dynamic system IRQ allocation is provided.
But it will be needed when real UV hardware becomes available and runs 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As pointed out and tracked by Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>:
Dhaval Giani got:
kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:357!
invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 24
...
his system (x3950) has 8 ioapic, irq > 256
This was caused by:
commit 9b7dc567d0
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri May 2 20:10:09 2008 +0200
x86: unify interrupt vector defines
The interrupt vector defines are copied 4 times around with minimal
differences. Move them all into asm-x86/irq_vectors.h
It appears that Thomas did not notice that x86_64 does something
completely different when he merge irq_vectors.h
We can solve this for 2.6.27 by simply reintroducing the old heuristic
for setting NR_IRQS on x86_64 to a usable value, which trivially removes
the regression.
Long term it would be nice to harmonize the handling of ioapic interrupts
of x86_32 and x86_64 so we don't have this kind of confusion.
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> tested an earlier version of
this patch by YH which confirms simply increasing NR_IRQS fixes the
problem.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Yinghai Lu