linux/arch/x86
Maciej W. Rozycki 7f0dbbc08d x86: fix IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325, v2
> That helped a lot, the system seems to work normally now.
>
> Here's the relevant snippet from dmesg:
>
> [    0.108006] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> [    0.108006] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> [    0.108006] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... <3>
> [    0.108006] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...<3> failed.
> [    0.108006] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...<3> works.
>
> and the whole thing is at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/debug/20080618/dmesg-2.log

 Hmm, that only proved the 8259A is indeed wired to the pin #2 of the I/O
APIC.

> I, personally, don't have any and AMD only has SB600 documentation on its
> web page (it's still marked as "AMD confidential" ;-)).

 Well, the IC block is most likely the same as that's not rocket science
and once done there is no need to fiddle with that.  That written, I am
afraid there is nothing useful about the IC in the document, except that
it's there and consists of an I/O APIC providing 24 inputs and the usual
pair of 8259A cores.  Thanks for the reference anyway.

> There is an interrupt controller in there, but I'm not sure if there's any
> 8259A.  The northbridge is on the CPU, actually.

 I will praise the day someone ships an x86 machine without an 8259A core!

 As expressed in another mail I suspect there may actually be a direct
route from the 8254 to INTIN0 in the southbridge -- this is what other
bootstrap logs seen in the Internet suggest.  This would mean this
particular BIOS is buggy (is it the latest version?) and provides an
incorrect IRQ override in its ACPI tables, for example because the
responsible block has been blindly copied from a machine using a commoner
wiring.  This could be moderately easily fixed up with a quirk based on
the PCI ID (after checking it again, we actually used to have a quirk for
ATI in this area, but the way it was done suggests the issue was not
understood well enough).

 Could you please remove the hack sent yesterday and test the patch
provided below?  I do hope it builds, but I have no immediate means to
check it.  Please report the output.  The intent is to test INTIN0
directly before testing INTIN2 through the 8259A.  Thanks.

 Aside of that, what I have gathered from your reports (please correct me
if I have got it wrong) is that when the through-8259A mode is used, then
after a while 8254 timer interrupts stop arriving.  What's interesting,
the "Virtual Wire IRQ" seems to work for you correctly (that's quite an
odd setup where a local APIC input is used in the native mode -- please
post /proc/interrupts for confirmation), which in turn implies the master
8259A drives its INT output as we expect.  Why would the I/O APIC input
have problems then?  Hmm...

[ mingo@elte.hu: revert the "x86: fix IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325"
  version. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 09:13:24 +02:00
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boot x86: fix unused variable 'loops' warning in arch/x86/boot/a20.c 2008-06-12 21:27:05 +02:00
configs x86: add optimized inlining 2008-04-26 17:44:55 +02:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes-x86-32: Remove unused return code 2008-04-21 10:19:21 +08:00
ia32 signals: x86 TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
kernel x86: fix IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325, v2 2008-07-08 09:13:24 +02:00
kvm KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structs 2008-06-24 21:02:32 +03:00
lguest lguest: fix ugly <NULL> in /proc/interrupts 2008-05-30 15:09:43 +10:00
lib x86-64: Fix "bytes left to copy" return value for copy_from_user() 2008-06-17 17:47:50 -07:00
mach-default
mach-es7000
mach-generic x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/mach-generic/bigsmp.c 2008-04-17 17:40:48 +02:00
mach-rdc321x x86, rdc321x: remove watchdog file 2008-04-17 17:40:50 +02:00
mach-visws x86: fix compilation error in VisWS 2008-04-24 23:15:44 +02:00
mach-voyager x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache() 2008-04-30 23:15:34 +02:00
math-emu x86: fix broken math-emu with lazy allocation of fpu area 2008-06-04 13:11:46 +02:00
mm arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: early_memtest(): fix types 2008-07-03 10:15:51 +02:00
oprofile x86: oprofile: remove NR_CPUS arrays in arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c 2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
pci x86: move pci_routirq declaration to pci.h 2008-07-08 09:13:08 +02:00
power x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c 2008-04-17 17:40:50 +02:00
vdso x86: use explicit copy in vdso_gettimeofday() 2008-05-23 14:08:06 +02:00
video x86: video/fbdev.c: add MODULE_LICENSE 2008-05-04 20:04:46 +02:00
xen Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-07-04 10:46:46 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-07-02 18:58:56 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fix 2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help text 2008-06-05 14:21:45 -07:00
Makefile x86: add subarch support (for headers) to x86_64 2008-04-17 17:41:01 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu