Re: [EXTERNAL] [tip: x86/apic] x86/io_apic: Cleanup trigger/polarity helpers

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 17:15 -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 10/29/20 7:15 AM, tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The following commit has been merged into the x86/apic branch of tip:
> > 
> > Commit-ID:     a27dca645d2c0f31abb7858aa0e10b2fa0f2f659
> > Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=a27dca645d2c0f31abb7858aa0e10b2fa0f2f659
> > Author:        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate:    Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:35:19 +01:00
> > Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitterDate: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:26:26 +01:00
> > 
> > x86/io_apic: Cleanup trigger/polarity helpers
> > 
> > 'trigger' and 'polarity' are used throughout the I/O-APIC code for handling
> > the trigger type (edge/level) and the active low/high configuration. While
> > there are defines for initializing these variables and struct members, they
> > are not used consequently and the meaning of 'trigger' and 'polarity' is
> > opaque and confusing at best.
> > 
> > Rename them to 'is_level' and 'active_low' and make them boolean in various
> > structs so it's entirely clear what the meaning is.
> 
> Running the tip tree on my second generation EPYC system I'm seeing lots
> of the following:
> 
> [  105.325371] hpet: Lost 9601 RTC interrupts
> [  105.485766] hpet: Lost 9600 RTC interrupts
> [  105.639182] hpet: Lost 9601 RTC interrupts
> [  105.792155] hpet: Lost 9601 RTC interrupts
> [  105.947076] hpet: Lost 9601 RTC interrupts
> [  106.100876] hpet: Lost 9600 RTC interrupts
> [  106.253444] hpet: Lost 9601 RTC interrupts
> [  106.406722] hpet: Lost 9601 RTC interrupts
> 
> preventing the system from booting. I bisected it to this commit.
> 
> Additionally, I'm seeing warnings and error messages (which I haven't
> bisected, yet) along these lines:
> 
> [   12.790801] WARNING: CPU: 135 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:2505 __irq_msi_compose_msg+0x79/0x80
> [   98.121716] irq 3: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> [  100.692087] irq 15: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> [  100.800217] irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> [  100.800407] irq 10: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

Odd. The warning suggests we're asking __irq_msi_compose_msg() to
compose an MSI targeted at an APIC ID above 255, which shouldn't ever
happen.

Can we see a full boot log with apic=verbose please?

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