Description of problem: ibm-morrison is brought up in a severly crippled state because of a broken _PSS table in the IBM bios. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.18-79 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot -- dmesg shows many softlockup warnings Actual results: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 10s! [ip:1706] CPU 3: Modules linked in: dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod video sbs backlight i2c_ec butt on battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport sg i2c_amd756 i2c_ core shpchp k8temp hwmon pcspkr amd_rng serio_raw k8_edac edac_mc tg3 mptspi mpt scsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci _hcd Pid: 1706, comm: ip Not tainted 2.6.18-79.el5dz #24 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8000c5f5>] [<ffffffff8000c5f5>] __delay+0x6/0x10 RSP: 0018:ffff81010f1b5ca0 EFLAGS: 00000293 RAX: 0000000000999146 RBX: ffff81010dca2500 RCX: 000000003fbdb35a RDX: 000000000000006f RSI: ffffc2000008044c RDI: 0000000001468ae9 RBP: 000000002dcd5b0b R08: ffff81010dca2000 R09: 000000000000a000 R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000297 R12: ffff81010dca2000 R13: 000000000000a000 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000297 FS: 00002aaaaaabd7f0(0000) GS:ffff810103e7f640(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000003396ccab60 CR3: 000000010f5b4000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8811fc68>] :tg3:tg3_writephy+0x37/0xe8 [<ffffffff8812054d>] :tg3:tg3_phy_reset+0x366/0x73d [<ffffffff88120f33>] :tg3:tg3_write_mem+0xc6/0xe2 [<ffffffff88123d7c>] :tg3:tg3_reset_hw+0x4d/0x15a6 [<ffffffff8000c5f3>] __delay+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff8812bbc3>] :tg3:tg3_open+0x2cd/0x5e0 [<ffffffff802159f4>] dev_open+0x2f/0x6e [<ffffffff802141cb>] dev_change_flags+0x5a/0x11a [<ffffffff80246f46>] devinet_ioctl+0x235/0x59c [<ffffffff8020c7b2>] sock_ioctl+0x1c1/0x1e5 [<ffffffff800419e7>] do_ioctl+0x21/0x6b [<ffffffff8002ff0d>] vfs_ioctl+0x248/0x261 [<ffffffff8004bd8a>] sys_ioctl+0x59/0x78 [<ffffffff8005d116>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 10s! [ip:1706] etc. Expected results: System should boot normally. Additional info: The issue here is that 3/4 cpus on ibm-morrison have no _PSS table. The last cpu has a bogus _PSS table, which is read in by the powernow-k8 driver. This results in a system in which one cpu is able to switch to bogus power states and timers, etc., break. This has been broken for sometime (since at least 5.1), and is NOT A BLOCKER.
I'm researching new BIOS (though this one isn't really that old, was updated middle of last year). I'm wondering if maybe it's not BIOS but eprhaps the CPU itself that is a problem? I will look into it.
there is a new BIOS for this system that might look promising. the new version 1.27 has the following fix that I don't know if will help or not Problem Fixed: Processor performance throttling * Added fix in ASL code for properly mapping operating region within the correct EBDA offset. Operating system could not properly initialize ACPI P-State tables to support processor performance throttling. unfortunately the blade is now non-functional so I will have to look into why that is. Once it is up and running again I will apply the new BIOS and we can hopefully re-test.
ibm-morrison is back functional now though it will need to be re-enabled in rhts before you can reserve it to test again. I did upgrade the firmware to the 1.27 level that was released in January (though I think it has a November date stamp on it).
Did anyone have a chance to try this again with the new firmware?
Ed, This system is in status "Unavailable" in RHTS. It is impossible to schedule tests on it. Reason: "Test was aborted by Scheduler power-reset failed" You will need to talk with engineering operations. It looks like it was enable for a couple of day but then was disabled again. http://tinyurl.com/33r6ox Jeff
IBM-morrison has some issues that I have yet to get resolved. RHTS seems to be the only thing that will reliably break it. My apologies for the slow response time. Can you reproduce the problem on ibm-morrison2 it is available in rhts and shoudl have the same hardware available.
closing this out. ibm-morrison has been shipped back to ibm awhile back.