On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:34:00AM +0800, Yu, Ke wrote:
> Hi Isaku,
>
> Thanks for tesing. Please see my comments below.
>
> Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > Hi Yu. I tested it and have some comments.
> >
> > - When I run xenpm, xen panics
> > It panics at 0xf40000000406ba91 =
> > xen-unstable.hg/xen/drivers/acpi/pmstat.c:98 (addr2line told)
> > It looks like pxpt->u.pt[pxpt->u.cur] wasn't allocated yet resulting
> > in NULL pointer reference.
>
> As Guanquan replied, this is a separate issue of xenpm logic, he will post
> another patch to fix this issue.
Great.
> > - From the boot message, ondemand governor fails to load.
> > I'm not sure this error is expected because of my hardware.
> > I guess this error case haven't been tested and that it caused
> > the above panic.
>
> >From the boot message, the BIOS _PSS information is totally messed up. E.g.
> >1048575us latency is wrong which cause ondemand driver fail to load, also
> >1048575MHz freq is obviously not correct. There are several possible reasons
> >of this:
> - BIOS itself is not correct
> - Dom0 ACPICA parsing logic is not correct.
>
> If the native linux (e.g RHEL5) works, then I tend to believe this is dut to
> the second reason. The dom0 kernel is bit old and bunch of ACPICA fixes in
> mainline kernel are not included in dom0. In my case, I also find the _PSS
> parsing result in my Hitachi itanium 2 box is not correct. This issue is
> fixed after I pulling two patch from mainline kernel (changeset 677 and 678
> in http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg)
>
> Anyway, this is a separate issue. we will try to find other ia64 box to see
> if this issue can be reproduced and then fixed.
>
> BTW, is it possible to check in these patch first?
Yes, I'll try them.
I attached DSDT.dsl which I extracted from my tiger4.
It seems that wrong acpi cpuid is used.
acpi cpu id which was passed should be one of
0x00,0x01,0x04,0x05,0x08,0x09,0x0C,0x0D.
But unintended value is used.
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yamahata
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