[tip:x86/debug] x86/kdump: No need to disable ioapic/ lapic in crash path

[Don Zickus]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 05:12:58PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:52:19AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > v2: removed the disable lapic code too
> > >>
> > >> with this commit, kdump is not working anymore on my setups with
> > >> Nehalem, Westmere, sandbridge.
> > >> these setup all have VT-d enabled.
> > >
> > > Hi Yinghai,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the report.  Can you attach the .config you were using and what
> > > vendor you were using for Nehalem, Westmere and Sandybridge.  I'll try to
> > > reproduce it in my lab.
> > 
> > Sure, please check attached one
> 
> Looks like I can reproduce the hang with my original patch and things work
> when we stick the disable_local_APIC() back in there.  I'll keep poking.

Hmm, my config worked fine in both cases, hence why I didn't catch it (its
based on a bloated Fedora config).  I'll look at the differences to see if
something pops out.

Cheers,
Don