From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com> native_smp_prepare_cpus -> default_setup_apic_routing -> enable_IR_x2apic -> irq_remapping_prepare -> intel_prepare_irq_remapping -> parse_ioapics_under_ir => return 0 -> ir_parse_ioapic_hpet_scope -> ir_parse_one_ioapic_scope -> intel_setup_irq_remapping
IR table is setup even if noapic boot parameter is added. As a result: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff8d5a5e58>] modify_irte+0x58/0x140 PGD 209638067 PUD 2105f4067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8d5a5e58>] [<ffffffff8d5a5e58>] modify_irte+0x58/0x140 Call Trace: intel_ir_set_affinity+0xa3/0xb0 msi_domain_set_affinity+0x21/0x70 ? __irq_set_affinity+0x34/0x70 irq_do_set_affinity+0x1d/0x70 irq_set_affinity_locked+0xc2/0x100 __irq_set_affinity+0x47/0x70 write_irq_affinity.isra.7+0xcc/0xf0 irq_affinity_proc_write+0x19/0x20 proc_reg_write+0x3d/0x70 ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x2f/0x60 __vfs_write+0x28/0x120 ? percpu_down_read+0x5c/0xa0 ? __sb_start_write+0xca/0xe0 ? __sb_start_write+0xca/0xe0 vfs_write+0xb5/0x1b0 SyS_write+0x49/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x81/0x220 entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 RIP [<ffffffff8d5a5e58>] modify_irte+0x58/0x140 RSP <ffff8e9ad01b7c78> CR2: 0000000000000000 irqbalance is running at the end of booting and changes the irq affinity, then irte is flushed. We should not have MSI and such if apic is disabled. This patch fix it by return -ENODEV if apic is disabled in order to avoid to setup ir table for ioapic. Cc: Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com> --- drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c b/drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c index ac59692..f1cb7c6 100644 --- a/drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c @@ -854,6 +854,9 @@ static int ir_parse_one_ioapic_scope(struct acpi_dmar_device_scope *scope, count = (scope->length - sizeof(struct acpi_dmar_device_scope)) / sizeof(struct acpi_dmar_pci_path); + if (skip_ioapic_setup) + return -ENODEV; + while (--count > 0) { /* * Access PCI directly due to the PCI -- 1.9.1