Dear Kyösti,
On 2020-01-25 00:56, Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
System *boots* with one of:
- maxcpus=0 (equivalent nosmp)
- maxcpus=1
- nolapic (with e1000 warning about missing MSI-X
System does *not* boot with one of:
- maxcpus=2
- noapic
Booting with `maxcpus=1` and then starting the second CPU also results in a hang.
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
I thought SMP was generally not compatible with PIC IRQ routing (which noapic enforces?) and this would explain case 2.
As for case 1, maybe I missed some detail with my commit [1] when switching from LAPIC to TSC timers. Like leaving LAPIC timers running at different rate or generally having the timer counters too much out-of-sync across CPU #0 and #1. You could try if that one is the commit with regression.
Yes, you are spot on.
Building the parent commit c00e2fb996 (cpu/intel: Use CPU_INTEL_COMMON_TIMEBASE) the system boots with both CPUs.
Kind regards,
Paul
[1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/34200%5B2]: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31342