Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq0 affinity broke on some i386 boxes

[jak@rudolph.ccur.com (Joe Korty)]

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Joe Korty wrote:
>
>>   The following patch fixes a bug that prevents a write to
>> /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity from actually changing the cpu affinity
>> of IRQ #0, on all the (Dell server) SMP machines I have access to.
> 
>  A nice spotting.  However what you describe is only a side effect of the
> bug, which is the IRQ is kept registered at the wrong pin.  It's only
> because the timer is special and it's edge-triggered it remained unnoticed
> for so long.
> 
>  I propose the following patch.  [...]
>
>  I don't know if the changes are relevant to your system as you haven't
> sent the relevant fragment of a bootstrap log from your system.  They
> affect all systems that have a bogus IRQ 0 entry in the MP table.  For
> other systems the patch is equivalent to yours.  Please test it if it
> works for you as I don't have a suitable system with IRQ 0 unconnected
> (I've been able to verify it builds only).  Everyone with such a system is
> invited to test the patch as well.


Thanks.  Your proposed patch works fine on the two of my five SMP systems
I have been able to get my hands on this afternoon.

Joe

PS: My original dmesg logs may now be found at
http://www.mindspring.com/~jakorty/irq0.bugreport.orig.