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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:35:39 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: X2APIC support
Message-ID:  <966c58d6-db64-2879-6709-0aa596bec24b@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160914123313.GC2840@zxy.spb.ru>
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On 14/09/2016 15:33, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 03:22:17PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>> On 14/09/2016 14:36, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 06:52:19PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> On 13/09/2016 18:22, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>>>> Any access
>>>>> to the LAPIC registers page in x2APIC mode faults.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a fact?
>>>> I read the following in the specification:
>>>>
>>>>   In x2APIC mode, the memory mapped interface is not available and any
>>>>   access to the MMIO interface will behave similar to that of a legacy xAPIC
>>>>   in globally disabled state.
>>>>
>>>> But I couldn't find what actually happens for the legacy xAPIC in globally
>>>> disabled state.  For AMD processors it is documented that if xAPIC is disabled
>>>> then accessing the APIC memory range works the same as accessing the regular
>>>> memory.  That can be different for Intel processors, of course.
>>>
>>> Look at the native_lapic_init(), very beginning of the function.  If
>>> x2apic_mode is non-zero, lapic_map is cleared after DMAP page cache
>>> attributes are changed.
>>
>> Right, but we are talking about the case where x2apic_mode *is zero* while the
>> hardware in x2APIC mode.
>>
>>> Right now, if BIOS pass control to OS in x2APIC mode, thinks just work
>>> because no LAPIC accesses are done until native_lapic_enable_x2apic() is
>>> called. This just happens, I thought about more organized receipt of the
>>> current LAPIC mode. Issue is that decision for LAPIC mode is performed
>>> by madt enumerator which pref. should not read LAPIC config (too early).
>>> And it is not clear at all, what to do if there is reason to use xAPIC,
>>> as checked by madt_setup_local(), but we are in x2APIC mode already.
>>
>> Yes.  As I mentioned earlier we should at least panic with an informative
>> message.  Maybe we could add some code to so something smarter later.
>>
>>> Anyway, returning to the original issue, I do not believe that the
>>> hand-off on that machine occured in the x2APIC mode when X2APIC_OPT_OUT
>>> is specified. Kernel would fault in that case.
>>
>> I think that it should be easy to check that if Slawa is still willing to try
>> another diagnostic patch.
> 
> What combination of BIOS setting need?

The one that causes the crash.

>> diff --git a/sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c b/sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c
>> index 203e9d00e8acc..37ac03fb9d811 100644
>> --- a/sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c
>> +++ b/sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c
>> @@ -429,6 +429,12 @@ native_lapic_init(vm_paddr_t addr)
>>  	if (x2apic_mode) {
>>  		native_lapic_enable_x2apic();
>>  		lapic_map = NULL;
>> +	} else if ((cpu_feature2 & CPUID2_X2APIC) != 0) {
>> +		r = rdmsr(MSR_APICBASE);
>> +		printf("MSR_APICBASE = 0x%16jx\n", (uintmax_t)r);
>> +		if ((r & (APICBASE_X2APIC | APICBASE_ENABLED)) ==
>> +		    (APICBASE_X2APIC | APICBASE_ENABLED))
>> +			printf("x2APIC is prohibited but turned on by BIOS\n");
>>  	}
>>
>>  	/* Setup the spurious interrupt handler. */
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Andriy Gapon


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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