x86: fix boot failure on 486 due to TSC breakage

 > Diffing dmesg between git7 and git8 doesn't sched any light since
 > git8 also removed the printouts of the x86 caps as they were being
 > initialised and updated. I'm currently adding those printouts back
 > in the hope of seeing where and when the caps get broken.

That turned out to be very illuminating:

 --- dmesg-2.6.24-git7	2008-02-24 18:01:25.295851000 +0100
 +++ dmesg-2.6.24-git8	2008-02-24 18:01:25.530358000 +0100
 ...
 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

 CPU: After all inits, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
+CPU: After applying cleared_cpu_caps, caps: 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Notice how the TSC cap bit goes from Off to On.

(The first two lines are printout loops from -git7 forward-ported
to -git8, the third line is the same printout loop added just after
the xor-with-cleared_cpu_caps[] loop.)

Here's how the breakage occurs:
1. arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c:tsc_init() sees !cpu_has_tsc,
   so bails and calls setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC).
2. include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h:setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit) clears
   the bit in boot_cpu_data and sets it in cleared_cpu_caps
3. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:identify_cpu() XORs all caps
   in with cleared_cpu_caps
   HOWEVER, at this point c->x86_capability correctly has TSC
   Off, cleared_cpu_caps has TSC On, so the XOR incorrectly
   sets TSC to On in c->x86_capability, with disastrous results.

The real bug is that clearing bits with XOR only works if the
bits are known to be 1 prior to the XOR, and that's not true here.

A simple fix is to convert the XOR to AND-NOT instead. The following
patch does that, and allows my 486 to boot 2.6.25-rc kernels again.

[ mingo@elte.hu: fixed a similar bug in setup_64.c as well. ]

The breakage was introduced via commit 7d851c8d3db0.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index f86a3c4a2669909be340d195a6ee93201c53cdf9..a38aafaefc230b4bfc49c34c98fc2c443fff8318 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ void __cpuinit identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
        /* Clear all flags overriden by options */
        for (i = 0; i < NCAPINTS; i++)
-               c->x86_capability[i] ^= cleared_cpu_caps[i];
+               c->x86_capability[i] &= ~cleared_cpu_caps[i];
 
        /* Init Machine Check Exception if available. */
        mcheck_init(c);

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
index 6fd804f0782145be3b45c223590c5c287a9bdb57..7637dc91c79bebac16365bbcff3b480c408584ef 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ void __cpuinit identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
        /* Clear all flags overriden by options */
        for (i = 0; i < NCAPINTS; i++)
-               c->x86_capability[i] ^= cleared_cpu_caps[i];
+               c->x86_capability[i] &= ~cleared_cpu_caps[i];
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
        mcheck_init(c);