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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:10:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205111039.GA3864@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47595DB2.5080302@reed.com>

On Fri 2007-12-07 09:50:26, David P. Reed wrote:
> My machine in question, for example, needs no waiting 
> within CMOS_READs at all.   And I doubt any other 
> chip/device needs waiting that isn't already provided by 
> the bus. the i/o to port 80 is very, very odd in this 
> context.  Actually, modern machines have potentially 
> more serious problems with i/o ops to non-existent 
> addresses, which may cause real bus wierdness.

I dislike outb_p clobbering port 0x80, but you are wrong here. BIOSes
already do outs to port 0x80 for debugging reason, so these accesses
are unlikely to do something bad.

Can we just do udelay(1) instead of port 80 access?

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-07 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-06 22:38 RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops David P. Reed
2007-12-07  0:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-07 10:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-07 14:50   ` David P. Reed
2007-12-05 11:10     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-12-08  0:21       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-07 14:54     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-07 15:43       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-07 16:28         ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11  0:31           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-11  5:53       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-07 16:04   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-07 16:31     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-07 17:19       ` Alan Cox
2007-12-07 18:45         ` Rene Herman
2007-12-07 18:42           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-07 19:25             ` Rene Herman
2007-12-07 21:45               ` Alan Cox
2007-12-08 19:25     ` David P. Reed
2007-12-08 19:50       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-08 20:47         ` David P. Reed
2007-12-08 21:04           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-08 20:26       ` Alan Cox
2007-12-11  5:58         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-09  5:04       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-09 13:22       ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-11 15:14       ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-12-09 12:54     ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-09 13:41       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-12-09 15:54       ` Ondrej Zary
2007-12-09 16:59       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-09 21:25         ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-09 22:29           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 23:22             ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-10 12:02               ` Alan Cox
2007-12-10  4:17           ` Rene Herman
2007-12-10 11:30             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-12-10 12:08               ` Rene Herman
2007-12-10 18:02               ` Ondrej Zary
2007-12-11  1:10               ` David Newall
2007-12-11  1:25                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-11  1:42                   ` David Newall
2007-12-11  1:46                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-11  1:51                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-11  7:40                     ` Paul Rolland
2007-12-11  9:50                       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 12:08                         ` David Newall
2007-12-11 13:16                           ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 13:32                             ` Paul Rolland
2007-12-11 14:15                               ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 15:28                                 ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 15:37                                   ` Paul Rolland
2007-12-11 15:53                                     ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 16:58                                       ` David P. Reed
2007-12-11 17:01                                         ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 17:05                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-11 17:32                                         ` Alan Cox
2007-12-11 19:19                                           ` David P. Reed
2007-12-11 19:36                                             ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-11 20:16                                             ` Alan Cox
2007-12-11 20:27                                             ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-11 20:34                                               ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 21:03                                                 ` David P. Reed
2007-12-11 23:56                                               ` David P. Reed
2007-12-12 13:11                                                 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-12 16:12                                                   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-14 14:33                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-16 21:26                                                       ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-17  0:02                                                         ` Alan Cox
2007-12-17  0:03                                                         ` Alan Cox
2007-12-17  0:28                                                           ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-17 14:42                                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-27 10:39                                                               ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-12 19:42                                                   ` Attitude problems David P. Reed
2007-12-12 20:31                                                     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-14 16:01                                                       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-11 16:32                                   ` RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops John Stoffel
2007-12-11 16:40                                     ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 13:50                             ` David Newall
2007-12-11 14:14                               ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 14:25                               ` Alan Cox
2007-12-12 22:18                                 ` David Newall
2007-12-12 23:00                                   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-13 13:13                                     ` David P. Reed
2007-12-13 13:21                                       ` Alan Cox
2007-12-14  1:50                                         ` David P. Reed
2007-12-14 15:16                                           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-11 15:41                               ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-11 16:30                                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-11 16:50                                   ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 17:00                                     ` David P. Reed
2007-12-11 17:04                                       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 17:27                                         ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 19:18                                         ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-11 19:16                                     ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-11 19:59                                       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 19:59                                       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 20:00                                       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 20:00                                       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-12 20:07                                         ` More info on port 80 symptoms on MCP51 machine David P. Reed
2007-12-12 20:26                                           ` Rene Herman
2007-12-12 20:37                                             ` David P. Reed
2007-12-12 20:58                                             ` Rene Herman
2007-12-12 21:01                                               ` Alan Cox
2007-12-12 21:12                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-12 21:29                                                   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-15 22:34                                                   ` Allen Martin
2007-12-15 22:46                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-16  0:46                                                     ` David P. Reed
2007-12-12 21:05                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-14 22:05                                                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-12-15  7:22                                                   ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 13:14                     ` RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops Alan Cox
2007-12-11 13:32                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-11 13:47                         ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-11 13:50                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 13:33                             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11  6:54                   ` Rene Herman
2007-12-11 17:01                     ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found] <fa./27SNSh+L5T3iqFNPdHClEu+yT0@ifi.uio.no>
2007-12-07  0:23 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-07  5:09   ` Rene Herman
2007-12-07  5:54     ` David P. Reed
2007-12-07  7:17       ` Rene Herman
2007-12-07  7:34         ` Rene Herman
2007-12-07 10:49     ` Andi Kleen

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