From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] apic, x86: Use BIOS settings to setup AMD EILVT APIC registers
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:27:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286360874-1471-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> (raw)
This patch set changes the way of setting up EILVT APIC registers
(APIC500-530). See family 10h bkdg:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/31116.pdf
Until now, Linux has assigned fixed LVT offsets for IBS and MCE
threshold. With the introduction of new cpu families we want to be
more flexible and assign those LVT offsets dynamically. The general
apporach here is to let the BIOS decide which offsets to use. Linux
will then detect this by reading the corresponding hw registers that
contain the LVT offsets.
This requires to check if the BIOS is correctly setting up the LVT
offsets. Otherwise a firmware bug message will be thrown. This is
implemented in patch #1.
Patch #2 implements the detection of MCE threshold and IBS LVT offsets
and changes the subsystem initialization. The code to setup the IBS
LVT offset on family 10h systems will remain as a workaround that will
be only applied in case of an invalid IBS LVT BIOS setup.
-Robert
next reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-06 10:27 Robert Richter [this message]
2010-10-06 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] apic, x86: Check if EILVT APIC registers are available (AMD only) Robert Richter
2010-10-20 5:01 ` [tip:irq/core] " tip-bot for Robert Richter
2010-10-06 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] apic, x86: Use BIOS settings for IBS and MCE threshold interrupt LVT offsets Robert Richter
2010-10-06 19:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-08 9:24 ` Robert Richter
2010-10-08 9:37 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-08 10:21 ` Robert Richter
2010-10-08 18:27 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-20 5:01 ` [tip:irq/core] " tip-bot for Robert Richter
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