From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261744AbUL3XKK (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:10:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261743AbUL3XKK (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:10:10 -0500 Received: from mail.tyan.com ([66.122.195.4]:8452 "EHLO tyanweb.tyan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261744AbUL3XJz (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:09:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C943142307290FE1@TYANWEB> From: YhLu To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, Matt_Domsch@dell.com Subject: RE: 256 apic id for amd64 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:19:01 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.9 has a good feature and you remove that in 2.6.10. That is if the io apic is set to above 0xf, io_apic.c will find one below 0xf unused and update the table. YH -----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@muc.de] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:45 AM To: YhLu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; discuss@x86-64.org; Matt_Domsch@dell.com Subject: Re: 256 apic id for amd64 YhLu writes: > Can someone who maintains the x86-64 io_apic.c look at my patch about 256 > apic id for amd64? First in general if you want patches submitted look up the maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file in the source tree and send it directly to the appropiate person and mailing list. Just curious - how many IO-APICs does your system have? Then I don't like your patch very much, since it doesnt handle Intel systems. The best fix is probably to i386 also has a different (but Intel specific fix) - uses either 0xf or 0xff based on the APIC version. Just dropping it seems better to me though. I suppose Matt (cc'ed) who apparently wrote this code originally used it to work around some BIOS bug, and at least we can hope for now that there are no EM64T boxes with that particular BIOS bug. I will add this patch. -Andi Remove check that limited max number of IO-APIC to 8. The original check was apparently to work around some old BIOS bugs and we just assume x86-64 machines don't have this class of problems. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen diff -u linux-2.6.10/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c-o linux-2.6.10/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c --- linux-2.6.10/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c-o 2004-12-24 22:34:45.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.10/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c 2004-12-30 19:41:08.000000000 +0100 @@ -1160,13 +1160,6 @@ old_id = mp_ioapics[apic].mpc_apicid; - if (mp_ioapics[apic].mpc_apicid >= 0xf) { - apic_printk(APIC_QUIET,KERN_ERR "BIOS bug, IO-APIC#%d ID is %d in the MPC table!...\n", - apic, mp_ioapics[apic].mpc_apicid); - apic_printk(APIC_QUIET,KERN_ERR "... fixing up to %d. (tell your hw vendor)\n", - reg_00.bits.ID); - mp_ioapics[apic].mpc_apicid = reg_00.bits.ID; - } printk(KERN_INFO "Using IO-APIC %d\n", mp_ioapics[apic].mpc_apicid);