On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:09:59AM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> My guess is that system is booting hot sometimes. SMM started fan or
> some cooling and set a temperature threshold. It is waiting for thermal
> interrupt for temperature threshold, which it never got.
Are you saying that that replication of lvtthmr_init to the APs in
intel_init_thermal() is absolutely needed on those SMI machines running
hot?
That thing:
* If BIOS takes over the thermal interrupt and sets its interrupt
* delivery mode to SMI (not fixed), it restores the value that the
* BIOS has programmed on AP based on BSP's info we saved since BIOS
* is always setting the same value for all threads/cores.
?
Me moving that lvtthmr_init read later would replicate the wrong value
because we'd soft-disable the APIC and thus the core would lockup
waiting...
The other interesting thing is that the core would always lockup when
trying to IPI another core to remote-flush the TLBs.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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