Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: fix keeping track of AMD C1E

[Borislav Petkov]

From: Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:22:39PM -0400

> On 15.07.2010, Michal Schmidt wrote: 
> 
> > This suggests that another way to fix my problem would be this (tested):
> [....]
> 
> Did apply this patch to stock 2.6.35-rc5, it does _not_ fix my C1E problem.
> It takes a lot of key pressing in the boot process to get the system up,
> just as it has been before.

Well, no wonder it wouldn't work - you seem to have that funny Gigabyte
BIOS which botches lapic and ioapic id enumeration and obviously
enabling C1E in the SMI handler (excerpt from your dmesg):

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x04] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x05] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x07] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x04] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x05] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x06] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x07] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23

See how the IOAPIC's and the third LAPIC's ids are the same?
That's wrong. There are couple people with the same problem:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15289. And as comment #53
says, we're trying to talk to Gigabyte to fix this and the C1E problem.
For now, you can disable C1E in the BIOS, use "idle=mwait" and put
yourself on the CC list of that bug. Sorry, I wish I could give you
better news.

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