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x86/apic: Read Error Status Register correctly
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Currently we do a read, a dummy write and a final read to fetch
the error code. The value from the final read is taken.
This is not the recommended way and leads to corrupted/lost ESR
values.

Intel(c) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual,
Combined Volumes 1, 2ABC, 3ABC, Section 10.5.3 states:

  Before attempt to read from the ESR, software should first
  write to it. (The value written does not affect the values read
  subsequently; only zero may be written in x2APIC mode.) This
  write clears any previously logged errors and updates the ESR
  with any errors detected since the last write to the ESR.
  This write also rearms the APIC error interrupt triggering
  mechanism.

This patch removes the first read such that we are conform with
the manual.

On my (very old) Pentium MMX SMP system this patch fixes the
issue that APIC errors:

  a) are not always reported and
  b) are reported with false error numbers.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com
Cc: rientjes@google.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389685487-20872-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Richard Weinberger authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jan 14, 2014
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17 changes: 8 additions & 9 deletions arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
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Expand Up @@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ __visible void smp_trace_spurious_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
*/
static inline void __smp_error_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
u32 v0, v1;
u32 v;
u32 i = 0;
static const char * const error_interrupt_reason[] = {
"Send CS error", /* APIC Error Bit 0 */
Expand All @@ -1982,21 +1982,20 @@ static inline void __smp_error_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
};

/* First tickle the hardware, only then report what went on. -- REW */
v0 = apic_read(APIC_ESR);
apic_write(APIC_ESR, 0);
v1 = apic_read(APIC_ESR);
v = apic_read(APIC_ESR);
ack_APIC_irq();
atomic_inc(&irq_err_count);

apic_printk(APIC_DEBUG, KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x(%02x)",
smp_processor_id(), v0 , v1);
apic_printk(APIC_DEBUG, KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x",
smp_processor_id(), v);

v1 = v1 & 0xff;
while (v1) {
if (v1 & 0x1)
v &= 0xff;
while (v) {
if (v & 0x1)
apic_printk(APIC_DEBUG, KERN_CONT " : %s", error_interrupt_reason[i]);
i++;
v1 >>= 1;
v >>= 1;
}

apic_printk(APIC_DEBUG, KERN_CONT "\n");
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