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There are machines out there with added value crap^WBIOS which provide an SMI handler for the local APIC thermal sensor interrupt. Out of reset, the BSP on those machines has something like 0x200 in that APIC register (timestamps left in because this whole issue is timing sensitive): [ 0.033858] read lvtthmr: 0x330, val: 0x200 which means: - bit 16 - the interrupt mask bit is clear and thus that interrupt is enabled - bits [10:8] have 010b which means SMI delivery mode. Now, later during boot, when the kernel programs the local APIC, it soft-disables it temporarily through the spurious vector register: setup_local_APIC: ... /* * If this comes from kexec/kcrash the APIC might be enabled in * SPIV. Soft disable it before doing further initialization. */ value = apic_read(APIC_SPIV); value &= ~APIC_SPIV_APIC_ENABLED; apic_write(APIC_SPIV, value); which means (from the SDM): "10.4.7.2 Local APIC State After It Has Been Software Disabled ... * The mask bits for all the LVT entries are set. Attempts to reset these bits will be ignored." And this happens too: [ 0.124111] APIC: Switch to symmetric I/O mode setup [ 0.124117] lvtthmr 0x200 before write 0xf to APIC 0xf0 [ 0.124118] lvtthmr 0x10200 after write 0xf to APIC 0xf0 This results in CPU 0 soft lockups depending on the placement in time when the APIC soft-disable happens. Those soft lockups are not 100% reproducible and the reason for that can only be speculated as no one tells you what SMM does. Likely, it confuses the SMM code that the APIC is disabled and the thermal interrupt doesn't doesn't fire at all, leading to CPU 0 stuck in SMM forever... Now, before |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.