Re: What was in the x86 merge for .20

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Dec 09 2006 - 03:42:16 EST


On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:00:04 -0800
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 06:10:29PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Yes please check the mainline git tree.
>
> Ok. I think I am the culprit :(
>
> Andi, Attached patch should fix the panic issue that Andrew encountered.
> Andrew, please confirm.
>
> Andi, if you are applying Ingo's genapic changes and reverting this quirk
> changes in git, then there is no need to apply the appended patch.
>
> Personally, I would like to go with Ingo's changes as it cleans up quite
> a bit of code.
>
> thanks,
> suresh
> --
>
> [patch] i386: Fix the verify_quirk_intel_irqbalance()
>
> Fix the verify_quirk_intel_irqbalance(). genapic checks should really
> happen only on affected versions of the E7520/E7320/E7525 based platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c b/arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c
> index a01320a..34874c3 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c
> @@ -10,13 +10,38 @@ #include <asm/cpu.h>
> #if defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC) && defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_PCI)
> static void __devinit verify_quirk_intel_irqbalance(struct pci_dev *dev)
> {
> + u8 config, rev;
> + u32 word;
> +
> + /* BIOS may enable hardware IRQ balancing for
> + * E7520/E7320/E7525(revision ID 0x9 and below)
> + * based platforms.
> + * For those platforms, make sure that the genapic is set to 'flat'
> + */
> + pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_CLASS_REVISION, &rev);
> + if (rev > 0x9)
> + return;
> +
> + /* enable access to config space*/
> + pci_read_config_byte(dev, 0xf4, &config);
> + pci_write_config_byte(dev, 0xf4, config|0x2);
> +
> + /* read xTPR register */
> + raw_pci_ops->read(0, 0, 0x40, 0x4c, 2, &word);
> +
> + if (!(word & (1 << 13))) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> - if (genapic != &apic_flat)
> - panic("APIC mode must be flat on this system\n");
> + if (genapic != &apic_flat)
> + panic("APIC mode must be flat on this system\n");
> #elif defined(CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH)
> - if (genapic != &apic_default)
> - panic("APIC mode must be default(flat) on this system. Use apic=default\n");
> + if (genapic != &apic_default)
> + panic("APIC mode must be default(flat) on this system. Use apic=default\n");
> #endif
> + }
> +
> + /* put back the original value for config space*/
> + if (!(config & 0x2))
> + pci_write_config_byte(dev, 0xf4, config);
> }
>
> void __init quirk_intel_irqbalance(void)

Yes, that boots. Andi: you want me to send it to Mr T?
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