Re: linux 5.12 - fails to boot - soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! - RIP smp_call_function_single

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun May 23 2021 - 13:05:28 EST


On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 05:28:42PM -0600, James Feeney wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I added "pr_info("%s : mcheck_intel_therm_init()
> use to run here", __func__);" to __init mcheck_init() in
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c, just to see *when* it *would have*
> run, compared to when it is running now.

Yes, this is probably the only timing-sensitive difference this patch of
mine introduces. So who knows what's in that LVT APIC register earlier
and *maybe* reading it later might give us different values.

So do the same game again pls, but this time apply the patch below. It
is practically a revert of my patch and with it, your box should *not*
freeze anymore *if* my patch really is the culprit.

Thx.

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index ddfb3cad8dff..5ac8b827bc12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@ struct cper_sec_mem_err;
extern void apei_mce_report_mem_error(int corrected,
struct cper_sec_mem_err *mem_err);

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_THERMAL_VECTOR
+extern void mcheck_intel_therm_init(void);
+#else
+static inline void mcheck_intel_therm_init(void) { }
+#endif
+
/*
* Enumerate new IP types and HWID values in AMD processors which support
* Scalable MCA.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
index bf7fe87a7e88..ded20b8612fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
@@ -2190,6 +2190,7 @@ __setup("mce", mcheck_enable);

int __init mcheck_init(void)
{
+ mcheck_intel_therm_init();
mce_register_decode_chain(&early_nb);
mce_register_decode_chain(&mce_uc_nb);
mce_register_decode_chain(&mce_default_nb);
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel/therm_throt.c b/drivers/thermal/intel/therm_throt.c
index f8e882592ba5..0ebd2386839f 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/intel/therm_throt.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/intel/therm_throt.c
@@ -621,19 +621,30 @@ bool x86_thermal_enabled(void)
return atomic_read(&therm_throt_en);
}

+void __init mcheck_intel_therm_init(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * This function is only called on boot CPU. Save the init thermal
+ * LVT value on BSP and use that value to restore APs' thermal LVT
+ * entry BIOS programmed later
+ */
+ if (intel_thermal_supported(&boot_cpu_data)) {
+ lvtthmr_init = apic_read(APIC_LVTTHMR);
+ pr_info("%s: lvtthmr_init: 0x%x\n", __func__, lvtthmr_init);
+ } else {
+ pr_info("%s: !intel_thermal_supported\n", __func__);
+ }
+}
+
void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
int tm2 = 0;
- u32 l, h;
+ u32 l, h, tmp = -1;

if (!intel_thermal_supported(c))
return;

- /* On the BSP? */
- if (c == &boot_cpu_data)
- lvtthmr_init = apic_read(APIC_LVTTHMR);
-
/*
* First check if its enabled already, in which case there might
* be some SMM goo which handles it, so we can't even put a handler
@@ -652,13 +663,17 @@ void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
* BIOS has programmed on AP based on BSP's info we saved since BIOS
* is always setting the same value for all threads/cores.
*/
- if ((h & APIC_DM_FIXED_MASK) != APIC_DM_FIXED)
+ if ((h & APIC_DM_FIXED_MASK) != APIC_DM_FIXED) {
apic_write(APIC_LVTTHMR, lvtthmr_init);
+ tmp = apic_read(APIC_LVTTHMR);
+ }

+ pr_info("%s: CPU%d, lvtthmr_init: 0x%x, read: 0x%x, misc_enable (low): 0x%x\n",
+ __func__, cpu, lvtthmr_init, tmp, l);

if ((l & MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_TM1) && (h & APIC_DM_SMI)) {
if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING)
- pr_debug("CPU%d: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI\n", cpu);
+ pr_info("CPU%d: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI\n", cpu);
return;
}


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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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