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authorGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2008-03-03 12:12:55 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-17 11:40:56 -0400
commit0941ecb55fbfd2d8bcc62dfd2fcaba1b35f2f196 (patch)
tree1e5ab463fc747dcc1cf56c22df7c3c5b745ac981 /arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
parentc048fdfe6178e082be918d4062c86d9764979112 (diff)
x86: get rid of smp_32.c and smp_64.c
This patch merges the copyright notices, and valuable comments that were left back on smp_{32,64}.c. With that, files are empty, and are deleted Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/smp.c')
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1 files changed, 91 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
index b662300a88f..88c1e518a20 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
1/*
2 * Intel SMP support routines.
3 *
4 * (c) 1995 Alan Cox, Building #3 <alan@redhat.com>
5 * (c) 1998-99, 2000 Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
6 * (c) 2002,2003 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs.
7 *
8 * i386 and x86_64 integration by Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
9 *
10 * This code is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or
11 * later.
12 */
13
1#include <linux/init.h> 14#include <linux/init.h>
2 15
3#include <linux/mm.h> 16#include <linux/mm.h>
@@ -19,6 +32,84 @@
19#else 32#else
20#include <asm/mach_apic.h> 33#include <asm/mach_apic.h>
21#endif 34#endif
35/*
36 * Some notes on x86 processor bugs affecting SMP operation:
37 *
38 * Pentium, Pentium Pro, II, III (and all CPUs) have bugs.
39 * The Linux implications for SMP are handled as follows:
40 *
41 * Pentium III / [Xeon]
42 * None of the E1AP-E3AP errata are visible to the user.
43 *
44 * E1AP. see PII A1AP
45 * E2AP. see PII A2AP
46 * E3AP. see PII A3AP
47 *
48 * Pentium II / [Xeon]
49 * None of the A1AP-A3AP errata are visible to the user.
50 *
51 * A1AP. see PPro 1AP
52 * A2AP. see PPro 2AP
53 * A3AP. see PPro 7AP
54 *
55 * Pentium Pro
56 * None of 1AP-9AP errata are visible to the normal user,
57 * except occasional delivery of 'spurious interrupt' as trap #15.
58 * This is very rare and a non-problem.
59 *
60 * 1AP. Linux maps APIC as non-cacheable
61 * 2AP. worked around in hardware
62 * 3AP. fixed in C0 and above steppings microcode update.
63 * Linux does not use excessive STARTUP_IPIs.
64 * 4AP. worked around in hardware
65 * 5AP. symmetric IO mode (normal Linux operation) not affected.
66 * 'noapic' mode has vector 0xf filled out properly.
67 * 6AP. 'noapic' mode might be affected - fixed in later steppings
68 * 7AP. We do not assume writes to the LVT deassering IRQs
69 * 8AP. We do not enable low power mode (deep sleep) during MP bootup
70 * 9AP. We do not use mixed mode
71 *
72 * Pentium
73 * There is a marginal case where REP MOVS on 100MHz SMP
74 * machines with B stepping processors can fail. XXX should provide
75 * an L1cache=Writethrough or L1cache=off option.
76 *
77 * B stepping CPUs may hang. There are hardware work arounds
78 * for this. We warn about it in case your board doesn't have the work
79 * arounds. Basically that's so I can tell anyone with a B stepping
80 * CPU and SMP problems "tough".
81 *
82 * Specific items [From Pentium Processor Specification Update]
83 *
84 * 1AP. Linux doesn't use remote read
85 * 2AP. Linux doesn't trust APIC errors
86 * 3AP. We work around this
87 * 4AP. Linux never generated 3 interrupts of the same priority
88 * to cause a lost local interrupt.
89 * 5AP. Remote read is never used
90 * 6AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
91 * 7AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
92 * 8AP. worked around in hardware - we get explicit CS errors if not
93 * 9AP. only 'noapic' mode affected. Might generate spurious
94 * interrupts, we log only the first one and count the
95 * rest silently.
96 * 10AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
97 * 11AP. Linux reads the APIC between writes to avoid this, as per
98 * the documentation. Make sure you preserve this as it affects
99 * the C stepping chips too.
100 * 12AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
101 * 13AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
102 * 14AP. we always deassert INIT during bootup
103 * 15AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
104 * 16AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
105 * 17AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
106 * 18AP. not affected - worked around in hardware
107 * 19AP. not affected - worked around in BIOS
108 *
109 * If this sounds worrying believe me these bugs are either ___RARE___,
110 * or are signal timing bugs worked around in hardware and there's
111 * about nothing of note with C stepping upwards.
112 */
22 113
23/* 114/*
24 * this function sends a 'reschedule' IPI to another CPU. 115 * this function sends a 'reschedule' IPI to another CPU.