On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:54:39PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> A long time ago I worked on a RHEL5 bug in which kdump hung during boot
> on a set of systems. The systems hung because they never received timer
> interrupts during calibrate_delay. These systems also all had Opteron
> processors on a hypertransport bus, bridged to a pci bus via an Nvidia MCP55
> northbridge chip. AFter much wrangling I managed to learn from Nvidia that they
> have an undocumented register in some versions of that chip which control how
> legacy interrupts are send to the cpu complex when the ioapic isn't active.
> Nvidia defaults this register to only send legacy interrupts to the BSP, so if
> kdump happens to boot on an AP, we never get timer interrupts and boom. I had
> initially used this quirk as a workaround, with my intent being to move apic
> initalization to an earlier point in the boot process, so the setting of the
> register would be irrelevant. Given the work involved in doing that however,
> the fragile nature of the apic initalization code, and the fact that, over the 2
> years since we found this bug, the MCP55 is the only chip which seems to have
> this issue, I've figure at this point its likely safer to just carry the quirk
> around. By setting the referenced bits in this hidden register, interrupts will
> be broadcast to all cpus when the ioapic isn't active on the above described
> systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
Ideally I would have liked it to happen only in second kernel but Neil
had mentioned that these PCI quirks get applied after calibration etc. So
that option seems to be out of window.
Once the early initialization of APIC happens and we don't rely on legacy
mode, we can get rid of this piece of code.
So I think it is ok to have this quirk to make kdump work on this
paticular chipset.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Vivek
>
> drivers/pci/quirks.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/pci_ids.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> index 89ed181..ff2964c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> @@ -2276,6 +2276,37 @@ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA,
> PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_15,
> nvenet_msi_disable);
>
> +/*
> + * Some versions of the MCP55 bridge from nvidia have a legacy irq routing
> + * config register. This register controls the routing of legacy interrupts
> + * from devices that route through the MCP55. If this register is misprogramed
> + * interrupts are only sent to the bsp, unlike conventional systems where the
> + * irq is broadxast to all online cpus. Not having this register set
> + * properly prevents kdump from booting up properly, so lets make sure that
> + * we have it set correctly.
> + * Note this is an undocumented register.
> + */
> +static void __devinit nvbridge_check_legacy_irq_routing(struct pci_dev *dev)
> +{
> + u32 cfg;
> +
> + pci_read_config_dword(dev, 0x74, &cfg);
> +
> + if (cfg & ((1 << 2) | (1 << 15))) {
> + printk(KERN_INFO "Rewriting irq routing register on MCP55\n");
> + cfg &= ~((1 << 2) | (1 << 15));
> + pci_write_config_dword(dev, 0x74, cfg);
> + }
> +}
> +
> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA,
> + PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_MCP55_BRIDGE_V0,
> + nvbridge_check_legacy_irq_routing);
> +
> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA,
> + PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_MCP55_BRIDGE_V4,
> + nvbridge_check_legacy_irq_routing);
> +
> static int __devinit ht_check_msi_mapping(struct pci_dev *dev)
> {
> int pos, ttl = 48;
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci_ids.h b/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> index 10d3330..58d3153 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci_ids.h
> @@ -1246,6 +1246,8 @@
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_GEFORCE_FX_GO5700_2 0x0348
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_QUADRO_FX_GO1000 0x034C
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_QUADRO_FX_1100 0x034E
> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_MCP55_BRIDGE_V0 0x0360
> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_MCP55_BRIDGE_V4 0x0364
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_15 0x0373
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCE_MCP61_SATA 0x03E7
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCE_MCP61_SMBUS 0x03EB
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