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Date:      Sun, 4 Sep 2016 19:29:27 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: X2APIC support
Message-ID:  <20160904162926.GF83214@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <f727b18d-6061-fbaf-6afc-1ae66f8cce16@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20151212130615.GE70867@zxy.spb.ru> <20151212133513.GL82577@kib.kiev.ua> <20160901112724.GX88122@zxy.spb.ru> <20160901114500.GJ83214@kib.kiev.ua> <20160901121300.GZ88122@zxy.spb.ru> <4ba05c00-f737-f562-553d-a7fa59145768@FreeBSD.org> <20160904151415.GE83214@kib.kiev.ua> <f727b18d-6061-fbaf-6afc-1ae66f8cce16@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 06:49:43PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 04/09/2016 18:14, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 11:19:16AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> Kostik, I see one strange thing which is common to both successful and
> >> unsuccessful configurations.  All "SMP: Added CPU..." lines have "AP" in them.
> >> It seems like the platform does not tell explicitly tell which CPU is the BSP,
> >> see cpu_add() function.  This can break quite a few assumption.  And I am not
> >> even sure how the successful scenario works.
> >> Ah... I see that there is a backup code in cpu_mp_start() where boot_cpu_id is
> >> set based on the current CPU's Local APIC ID.  I suspect then that this
> >> information is incorrect in the failing case.
> >>
> > Well, there is no easy way to read the LAPIC Id of BSP before LAPICs
> > are initialized. BIOS might reprogram LAPIC Ids, so reading from
> > CPUID[1].EBX[31:24] might return incorrect data. Even more incorrect
> > it might be in the x2APIC state, since 8 bits are not enough for 32bit
> > x2APIC Id.
> 
> Hmm, I am not sure how what you are saying here is relevant to the problem.
> I believe that cpu_mp_start() is executed (on the BSP) after the BSP's LAPIC is
> initialized.  So, the code should just work.
The order is madt_probe()->madt_probe_cpus()->madt_setup_local().

madt_probe() and madt_probe_cpus() are called from apic_init9) at
SI_SUB_TUNABLEs, and madt_probe_cpus()->madt_add_cpu()->lapic_create()->
cpu_add() is how the SMP: ... lines are printed.

The madt_setup_local() code is called from apic_setup_local() at SI_SUB_CPU,
this is where APIC window is mapped or x2APIC mode is enabled by the call
to native_lapic_init().

You cannot get BSP LAPIC Id earlier than native_lapic_init() was executed.

mp_start()->cpu_mp_start() is called right after the madt_setup_local().

> 
> My theory was that the BSP's LAPIC ID was incorrectly programmed by BIOS (firmware).

This is possible, of course.  But it would not affect "SMP: Added CPU ..."
lines.



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