From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: [PATCH] arch/x86: Encourage rather than discourage x2apic support
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:16:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202103310516.42497.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
Multi-core SMP doesn't work on modern Intel CPUs (at least Comet Lake) without
x2apic. Unsure users should say Y.
Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 2792879d398ee..ddb42707bd069 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -446,9 +446,10 @@ config X86_X2APIC
This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
- and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio.
+ and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. It is also needed
+ to use multiple cores on modern Intel CPUs.
- If you don't know what to do here, say N.
+ If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
config X86_MPPARSE
bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
--
2.6.23
next reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 5:31 UTC|newest]
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2021-03-31 5:16 Luke Dashjr [this message]
2021-04-10 9:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
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