This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/smpboot: Init apic mapping before usage
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-smpboot-init-apic-mapping-before-usage.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1e90a13d0c3dc94512af1ccb2b6563e8297838fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:42:42 +0200
Subject: x86/smpboot: Init apic mapping before usage
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1e90a13d0c3dc94512af1ccb2b6563e8297838fa upstream.
The recent changes, which forced the registration of the boot cpu on UP
systems, which do not have ACPI tables, have been fixed for systems w/o
local APIC, but left a wreckage for systems which have neither ACPI nor
mptables, but the CPU has an APIC, e.g. virtualbox.
The boot process crashes in prefill_possible_map() as it wants to register
the boot cpu, which needs to access the local apic, but the local APIC is
not yet mapped.
There is no reason why init_apic_mapping() can't be invoked before
prefill_possible_map(). So instead of playing another silly early mapping
game, as the ACPI/mptables code does, we just move init_apic_mapping()
before the call to prefill_possible_map().
In hindsight, I should have noticed that combination earlier.
Sorry for the churn (also in stable)!
Fixes: ff8560512b8d ("x86/boot/smp: Don't try to poke disabled/non-existent APIC")
Reported-and-debugged-by: Michal Necasek <michal.necasek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@xxxxxx>
Cc: prarit@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: michael.thayer@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: knut.osmundsen@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: frank.mehnert@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1610282114380.5053@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1222,11 +1222,16 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
if (smp_found_config)
get_smp_config();
+ /*
+ * Systems w/o ACPI and mptables might not have it mapped the local
+ * APIC yet, but prefill_possible_map() might need to access it.
+ */
+ init_apic_mappings();
+
prefill_possible_map();
init_cpu_to_node();
- init_apic_mappings();
io_apic_init_mappings();
kvm_guest_init();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/x86-smpboot-init-apic-mapping-before-usage.patch
queue-4.8/x86-microcode-amd-fix-more-fallout-from-config_randomize_memory-y.patch
queue-4.8/timers-lock-base-for-same-bucket-optimization.patch
queue-4.8/timers-plug-locking-race-vs.-timer-migration.patch
queue-4.8/timers-prevent-base-clock-corruption-when-forwarding.patch
queue-4.8/timers-prevent-base-clock-rewind-when-forwarding-clock.patch
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