Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:32:00PM +0800, Thibaut Laurent wrote:
> > And the winner is... Andrea. Kudos to you, I've just applied these patches,
> > recompiled and it seems to work fine.
> > Too bad, this was the perfect excuse for getting rid of those good old Cyrix
> > boxen ;)
>
> As Andrea's patches don't actually fix anything Cyrix related it's obvious
> that they just avoid the real bug instead of fixing it.
> It's a very useful datapoint though.
My money is on the unconditional sti()'s in the cyrix code.
--- linux-2.4.6/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Mon May 28 13:31:46 2001
+++ lk-ext3/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Fri Jul 6 01:37:39 2001
@@ -1243,12 +1255,13 @@ static int __init init_amd(struct cpuinf
/*
* Read Cyrix DEVID registers (DIR) to get more detailed info. about the CPU
*/
-static inline void do_cyrix_devid(unsigned char *dir0, unsigned char *dir1)
+static void do_cyrix_devid(unsigned char *dir0, unsigned char *dir1)
{
unsigned char ccr2, ccr3;
+ unsigned long flags;
/* we test for DEVID by checking whether CCR3 is writable */
- cli();
+ save_flags(flags);
ccr3 = getCx86(CX86_CCR3);
setCx86(CX86_CCR3, ccr3 ^ 0x80);
getCx86(0xc0); /* dummy to change bus */
@@ -1272,7 +1285,7 @@ static inline void do_cyrix_devid(unsign
*dir0 = getCx86(CX86_DIR0);
*dir1 = getCx86(CX86_DIR1);
}
- sti();
+ restore_flags(flags);
}
/*
@@ -1316,15 +1329,16 @@ static void __init check_cx686_slop(stru
{
if (Cx86_dir0_msb == 3) {
unsigned char ccr3, ccr5;
+ unsigned long flags;
- cli();
+ save_flags(flags);
ccr3 = getCx86(CX86_CCR3);
setCx86(CX86_CCR3, (ccr3 & 0x0f) | 0x10); /* enable MAPEN */
ccr5 = getCx86(CX86_CCR5);
if (ccr5 & 2)
setCx86(CX86_CCR5, ccr5 & 0xfd); /* reset SLOP */
setCx86(CX86_CCR3, ccr3); /* disable MAPEN */
- sti();
+ restore_flags(flags);
if (ccr5 & 2) { /* possible wrong calibration done */
printk(KERN_INFO "Recalibrating delay loop with SLOP bit reset\n");
@@ -2092,15 +2106,16 @@ static int __init id_and_try_enable_cpui
if (dir0 == 5 || dir0 == 3)
{
unsigned char ccr3, ccr4;
+ unsigned long flags;
printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling CPUID on Cyrix processor.\n");
- cli();
+ save_flags(flags);
ccr3 = getCx86(CX86_CCR3);
setCx86(CX86_CCR3, (ccr3 & 0x0f) | 0x10); /* enable MAPEN */
ccr4 = getCx86(CX86_CCR4);
setCx86(CX86_CCR4, ccr4 | 0x80); /* enable cpuid */
setCx86(CX86_CCR3, ccr3); /* disable MAPEN */
- sti();
+ restore_flags(flags);
}
} else
-
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