linux/arch
Zachary Amsden 8542b200cb [PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer check
Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option.  The
VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which
probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings.  It fires
100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using
a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs
have not yet been delivered.

In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug
could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter
SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs.

While here, make check_timer be __init.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
..
alpha [NET]: Alpha checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:01 -08:00
arm Fix misc Kconfig typos 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] remove bogus arch-specific syscall exports 2006-10-11 11:17:07 -07:00
avr32 AVR32: Add missing return instruction in __raw_writesb 2006-11-06 14:07:16 +01:00
cris [NET]: Cris checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:02 -08:00
frv [NET]: FRV checksum annotations. 2006-12-02 21:23:03 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
i386 [PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer check 2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00
ia64 [NET]: IA64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:05 -08:00
m32r [NET]: M32R checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:06 -08:00
m68k [NET]: M68K checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:07 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
mips [MIPS] Cleanup memory barriers for weakly ordered systems. 2006-12-04 22:43:14 +00:00
parisc [NET]: PARISC checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:10 -08:00
powerpc [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
ppc [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
s390 [S390] Don't use small stacks when lockdep is used. 2006-12-04 15:41:10 +01:00
sh [NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.h 2006-12-02 21:22:59 -08:00
sh64 [NET]: SH64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:11 -08:00
sparc [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
sparc64 [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
um [NET]: UML checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:12 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86-64: Don't force inlining of do_csum 2006-12-07 02:14:07 +01:00
xtensa [PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections 2006-10-27 15:34:51 -07:00