Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Gabriel C
On 15.01.2018 18:04, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 17:56, Gabriel C wrote: On 15.01.2018 17:42, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 17:29, Gabriel C wrote: On 15.01.2018 16:40, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 16:32, Ingo Molnar wrote: Hi Juergen, * Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 1

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 15/01/18 17:56, Gabriel C wrote: > On 15.01.2018 17:42, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 15/01/18 17:29, Gabriel C wrote: >>> On 15.01.2018 16:40, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 16:32, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>> >>> Hi Juergen, >>> > * Juergen Gross wrote: > >> On 15/01/18 15:56,

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Gabriel C
On 15.01.2018 17:42, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 17:29, Gabriel C wrote: On 15.01.2018 16:40, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 16:32, Ingo Molnar wrote: Hi Juergen, * Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 15/01/18 17:29, Gabriel C wrote: > On 15.01.2018 16:40, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 15/01/18 16:32, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> > > Hi Juergen, > >>> * Juergen Gross wrote: >>> On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Gabriel C
On 15.01.2018 16:40, Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 16:32, Ingo Molnar wrote: Hi Juergen, * Juergen Gross wrote: On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: Ingo, with my finding that above boot failure is related to a bug

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 15/01/18 16:32, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Juergen Gross wrote: > >> On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: Ingo, with my finding that above boot failure is related to a bug in openSUSE's grub2 (I've verified it soe

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Juergen Gross wrote: > On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Ingo, with my finding that above boot failure is related to a bug in > >> openSUSE's grub2 (I've verified it soesn't exist in upstream grub2), > > > > The b

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> Ingo, with my finding that above boot failure is related to a bug in >> openSUSE's grub2 (I've verified it soesn't exist in upstream grub2), > > The box I'm seeing this on has SLES12-SP2 g

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 15:41 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 12/01/18 09:01, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 07:40 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> On 12/01/18 05:25, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >>> Hi Juergen, > >>> > >>> Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > Ingo, with my finding that above boot failure is related to a bug in > openSUSE's grub2 (I've verified it soesn't exist in upstream grub2), The box I'm seeing this on has SLES12-SP2 grub: Version: 2.02~beta2-115.9.1 Does it

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 12/01/18 14:11, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> Hi Juergen, >> >> Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but >> discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due >> to incredible RETPOLINE overhead, rather because box had fo

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-15 Thread Juergen Gross
On 12/01/18 09:01, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 07:40 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 12/01/18 05:25, Mike Galbraith wrote: >>> Hi Juergen, >>> >>> Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but >>> discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hi Juergen, > > Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but > discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due > to incredible RETPOLINE overhead, rather because box had forgotten that > it had more than one CPU.  I was

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 12:17 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > > Hmm, what does: > > cat /sys/kernel/boot_params/data | od -t x1 -A x | grep -e ^0002 000200 eb 6e 48 64 72 53 0e 02 00 00 00 00 00 10 80 32 000210 21 01 00 80 00 00 00 01 00 a0 63 3f 38 0e 9c 00 000220 00 00 00 00 20 54 00 00 00 b0 ff 3

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 05:25:28AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hi Juergen, > > Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but > discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due > to incredible RETPOLINE overhead, rather because box had forgotten tha

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-12 Thread Juergen Gross
On 12/01/18 09:01, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 07:40 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 12/01/18 05:25, Mike Galbraith wrote: >>> Hi Juergen, >>> >>> Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but >>> discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 07:40 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 12/01/18 05:25, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Hi Juergen, > > > > Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but > > discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due > > to incredible RETPOLINE o

Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-11 Thread Juergen Gross
On 12/01/18 05:25, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hi Juergen, > > Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but > discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due > to incredible RETPOLINE overhead, rather because box had forgotten that > it had more than on

[x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP

2018-01-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi Juergen, Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due to incredible RETPOLINE overhead, rather because box had forgotten that it had more than one CPU.  I was going to leave it for the weekend, but