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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c | 25 |
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c index 74d49e04de58..c50adb84ea6f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c @@ -2297,11 +2297,21 @@ out: } /* - * - * IRQ's that are handled by the PIC in the MPS IOAPIC case. - * - IRQ2 is the cascade IRQ, and cannot be a io-apic IRQ. - * Linux doesn't really care, as it's not actually used - * for any interrupt handling anyway. + * Traditionally ISA IRQ2 is the cascade IRQ, and is not available + * to devices. However there may be an I/O APIC pin available for + * this interrupt regardless. The pin may be left unconnected, but + * typically it will be reused as an ExtINT cascade interrupt for + * the master 8259A. In the MPS case such a pin will normally be + * reported as an ExtINT interrupt in the MP table. With ACPI + * there is no provision for ExtINT interrupts, and in the absence + * of an override it would be treated as an ordinary ISA I/O APIC + * interrupt, that is edge-triggered and unmasked by default. We + * used to do this, but it caused problems on some systems because + * of the NMI watchdog and sometimes IRQ0 of the 8254 timer using + * the same ExtINT cascade interrupt to drive the local APIC of the + * bootstrap processor. Therefore we refrain from routing IRQ2 to + * the I/O APIC in all cases now. No actual device should request + * it anyway. --macro */ #define PIC_IRQS (1 << PIC_CASCADE_IR) @@ -2315,10 +2325,7 @@ void __init setup_IO_APIC(void) enable_IO_APIC(); - if (acpi_ioapic) - io_apic_irqs = ~0; /* all IRQs go through IOAPIC */ - else - io_apic_irqs = ~PIC_IRQS; + io_apic_irqs = ~PIC_IRQS; printk("ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs\n"); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c index 07ebcd305fb7..9e645cba11c4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c @@ -1823,11 +1823,21 @@ static int __init notimercheck(char *s) __setup("no_timer_check", notimercheck); /* - * - * IRQs that are handled by the PIC in the MPS IOAPIC case. - * - IRQ2 is the cascade IRQ, and cannot be a io-apic IRQ. - * Linux doesn't really care, as it's not actually used - * for any interrupt handling anyway. + * Traditionally ISA IRQ2 is the cascade IRQ, and is not available + * to devices. However there may be an I/O APIC pin available for + * this interrupt regardless. The pin may be left unconnected, but + * typically it will be reused as an ExtINT cascade interrupt for + * the master 8259A. In the MPS case such a pin will normally be + * reported as an ExtINT interrupt in the MP table. With ACPI + * there is no provision for ExtINT interrupts, and in the absence + * of an override it would be treated as an ordinary ISA I/O APIC + * interrupt, that is edge-triggered and unmasked by default. We + * used to do this, but it caused problems on some systems because + * of the NMI watchdog and sometimes IRQ0 of the 8254 timer using + * the same ExtINT cascade interrupt to drive the local APIC of the + * bootstrap processor. Therefore we refrain from routing IRQ2 to + * the I/O APIC in all cases now. No actual device should request + * it anyway. --macro */ #define PIC_IRQS (1<<2) @@ -1838,10 +1848,7 @@ void __init setup_IO_APIC(void) * calling enable_IO_APIC() is moved to setup_local_APIC for BP */ - if (acpi_ioapic) - io_apic_irqs = ~0; /* all IRQs go through IOAPIC */ - else - io_apic_irqs = ~PIC_IRQS; + io_apic_irqs = ~PIC_IRQS; apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs\n"); |
