panic during IO-APIC detection

From: Andreas Deresch
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 11:28:49 EST


Hi lkml,

my notebook (Acer Aspire 1691WLMi, chipset: Intel 915PM) hangs during
IO-APIC detection. I am currently using 2.6.11-rc4-bk1, but this should be
the same for other versions.

Reason:
ACPI MADT contains info on 2 IO-APICs.
io_apic_get_unique_id panics due to being unable to assign an id to the
second one (the memory location reads as all ones). The chipset spec
(specifically: ICH6-M) is only talking about one IO-APIC, so most likely the
MADT is in error.

The question is, should io_apic_get_unique_id be more fault tolerant, or
where else should this be fixed?

TIA,
ad

For the moment I did the following:

diff -rbBu linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c 2005-02-15 20:50:11.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c 2005-02-14 23:49:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -2449,8 +2449,10 @@
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioapic_lock, flags);

/* Sanity check */
- if (reg_00.bits.ID != apic_id)
- panic("IOAPIC[%d]: Unable change apic_id!\n", ioapic);
+ if (reg_00.bits.ID != apic_id) {
+ printk("IOAPIC[%d]: Unable change apic_id!\n", ioapic);
+ return -1;
+ }
}

apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, KERN_INFO
diff -rbBu linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c 2005-02-15 20:50:11.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c 2005-02-14 23:49:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -895,6 +895,7 @@
u32 gsi_base)
{
int idx = 0;
+ int tmpid = 0;

if (nr_ioapics >= MAX_IO_APICS) {
printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: Max # of I/O APICs (%d) exceeded "
@@ -914,7 +915,11 @@
mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicaddr = address;

set_fixmap_nocache(FIX_IO_APIC_BASE_0 + idx, address);
- mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicid = io_apic_get_unique_id(idx, id);
+ if ((tmpid = io_apic_get_unique_id(idx, id)) == -1) {
+ nr_ioapics--;
+ return;
+ }
+ mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicid = (u8)(tmpid);
mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicver = io_apic_get_version(idx);

/*
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