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Commit: f7f847b01571e86044dc77e03d92f43699652f8d
Parent: df912ea4ae7233d1504fbd861ee127bd7ee5781d
Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Sep 26 15:21:33 2007 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Sep 26 15:43:41 2007 -0700
Revert "x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E"
This reverts commit e66485d747505e9d960b864fc6c37f8b2afafaf0, since
Rafael Wysocki noticed that the change only works for his in -mm, not in
mainline (and that both "noapictimer" _and_ "apicmaintimer" are broken
on his hardware, but that's apparently not a regression, just a symptom
of the same issue that causes the automatic apic timer disable to not
work).
It turns out that it really doesn't work correctly on x86-64, since
x86-64 doesn't use the generic clock events for timers yet.
Thanks to Rafal for testing, and here's the ugly details on x86-64 as
per Thomas:
"I just looked into the code and the logic vs. noapictimer on SMP is
completely broken.
On i386 the noapictimer option not only disables the local APIC
timer, it also registers the CPUs for broadcasting via IPI on SMP
systems.
The x86-64 code uses the broadcast only when the local apic timer is
active, i.e. "noapictimer" is not on the command line. This defeats
the whole purpose of "noapictimer". It should be there to make boxen
work, where the local APIC timer actually has a hardware problem,
e.g. the nx6325.
The current implementation of x86_64 only fixes the ACPI c-states
related problem where the APIC timer stops in C3(2), nothing else.
On nx6325 and other AMD X2 equipped systems which have the C1E
enabled we run into the following:
PIT keeps jiffies (and the system) running, but the local APIC timer
interrupts can get out of sync due to this C1E effect.
I don't think this is a critical problem, but it is wrong
nevertheless.
I think it's safe to revert the C1E patch and postpone the fix to the
clock events conversion."
On further reflection, Thomas noted:
"It's even worse than I thought on the first check:
"noapictimer" on the command line of an SMP box prevents _ONLY_ the
boot CPU apic timer from being used. But the secondary CPU is still
unconditionally setting up the APIC timer and uses the non
calibrated variable calibration_result, which is of course 0, to
setup the APIC timer. Wreckage guaranteed."
so we'll just have to wait for the x86 merge to hopefully fix this up
for x86-64.
Tested-and-requested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c | 34 ----------------------------------
include/asm-x86_64/apic.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
index 32054bf..af838f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -546,37 +546,6 @@ static void __init amd_detect_cmp(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
#endif
}
-#define ENABLE_C1E_MASK 0x18000000
-#define CPUID_PROCESSOR_SIGNATURE 1
-#define CPUID_XFAM 0x0ff00000
-#define CPUID_XFAM_K8 0x00000000
-#define CPUID_XFAM_10H 0x00100000
-#define CPUID_XFAM_11H 0x00200000
-#define CPUID_XMOD 0x000f0000
-#define CPUID_XMOD_REV_F 0x00040000
-
-/* AMD systems with C1E don't have a working lAPIC timer. Check for that. */
-static __cpuinit int amd_apic_timer_broken(void)
-{
- u32 lo, hi;
- u32 eax = cpuid_eax(CPUID_PROCESSOR_SIGNATURE);
- switch (eax & CPUID_XFAM) {
- case CPUID_XFAM_K8:
- if ((eax & CPUID_XMOD) < CPUID_XMOD_REV_F)
- break;
- case CPUID_XFAM_10H:
- case CPUID_XFAM_11H:
- rdmsr(MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E, lo, hi);
- if (lo & ENABLE_C1E_MASK)
- return 1;
- break;
- default:
- /* err on the side of caution */
- return 1;
- }
- return 0;
-}
-
static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
unsigned level;
@@ -648,9 +617,6 @@ static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
/* Family 10 doesn't support C states in MWAIT so don't use it */
if (c->x86 == 0x10 && !force_mwait)
clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_MWAIT, &c->x86_capability);
-
- if (amd_apic_timer_broken())
- disable_apic_timer = 1;
}
static void __cpuinit detect_ht(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/apic.h b/include/asm-x86_64/apic.h
index e458020..85125ef 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/apic.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/apic.h
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ extern int apic_verbosity;
extern int apic_runs_main_timer;
extern int ioapic_force;
extern int apic_mapped;
-extern int disable_apic_timer;
/*
* Define the default level of output to be very little
-
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