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Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds
79e453d49b Revert mmiocfg heuristics and blacklist changes
This reverts commits 11012d419c and
40dd2d20f2, which allowed us to use the
MMIO accesses for PCI config cycles even without the area being marked
reserved in the e820 memory tables.

Those changes were needed for EFI-environment Intel macs, but broke some
newer Intel 965 boards, so for now it's better to revert to our old
2.6.17 behaviour and at least avoid introducing any new breakage.

Andi Kleen has a set of patches that work with both EFI and the broken
Intel 965 boards, which will be applied once they get wider testing.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-19 08:15:22 -07:00
Simon Horman
72c4a13aaa [IPVS]: Document the ports option to ip_vs_ftp in kernel-parameters.txt
I'm not sure if documenting this here is appropriate, but
if it is, here is some text to put there.

Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-17 23:21:03 -07:00
Andi Kleen
40dd2d20f2 [PATCH] x86: Disable MMCONFIG on Intel SDV using DMI blacklist
As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.

This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-30 16:05:16 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar
163ecdff06 [PATCH] delay accounting: temporarily enable by default
Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing
without requiring special measures.

Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param.
 This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing.  It
can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users
shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting.  Or
it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common
enough to warrant keeping the feature on.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:37 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar
ca74e92b46 [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: setup
Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc.  The
collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches.  This patch
sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
disabled through a kernel boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
cae2ed9aa5 [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests
Introduce DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, which uses the generic lock debugging
code's silent-failure feature to run a matrix of testcases.  There are 210
testcases currently:

  +-----------------------
  | Locking API testsuite:
  +------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
                                 | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem |
  -------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
                     A-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                 A-B-B-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
             A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
             A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                    double unlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                 bad unlock order:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
  --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
              recursive read-lock:             |  ok  |             |  ok  |
  --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
                non-nested unlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
  --------------------------------------+------+------+------+
     hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
     soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
     hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
     soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
       sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
       sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/123:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/123:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/132:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/132:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/213:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/213:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/231:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/231:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/312:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/312:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/321:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/321:  ok  |
  --------------------------------+-----+----------------
  Good, all 210 testcases passed! |
  --------------------------------+

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
602cada851 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
  [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
  [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
  ...
2006-06-29 14:19:21 -07:00
Peter Oberparleiter
585c3047a8 [S390] Add vmpanic parameter.
Implementation of new kernel parameter vmpanic that provides a means to
perform a z/VM CP command after a kernel panic occurred.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-06-29 15:08:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e6e5494cb2 [PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vma
Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.

Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.

It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).

There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO.  Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off.  Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.

There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.

(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)

This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
890fbae281 [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
Just removes a few unused #defines and fixes some comments due to
devfs now being gone.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:09 -07:00
john stultz
5d0cf410e9 [PATCH] Time: i386 Clocksource Drivers
Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc).
With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping
code should be complete.

The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
john stultz
734efb467b [PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure
This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure.  A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter.  This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.

Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
37224470c8 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (65 commits)
  ACPI: suppress power button event on S3 resume
  ACPI: resolve merge conflict between sem2mutex and processor_perflib.c
  ACPI: use for_each_possible_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu()
  ACPI: delete newly added debugging macros in processor_perflib.c
  ACPI: UP build fix for bugzilla-5737
  Enable P-state software coordination via _PDC
  P-state software coordination for speedstep-centrino
  P-state software coordination for acpi-cpufreq
  P-state software coordination for ACPI core
  ACPI: create acpi_thermal_resume()
  ACPI: create acpi_fan_suspend()/acpi_fan_resume()
  ACPI: pass pm_message_t from acpi_device_suspend() to root_suspend()
  ACPI: create acpi_device_suspend()/acpi_device_resume()
  ACPI: replace spin_lock_irq with mutex for ec poll mode
  ACPI: Allow a WAN module enable/disable on a Thinkpad X60.
  sem2mutex: acpi, acpi_link_lock
  ACPI: delete unused acpi_bus_drivers_lock
  sem2mutex: drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
  ACPI add ia64 exports to build acpi_memhotplug as a module
  ACPI: asus_acpi_init(): propagate correct return value
  ...

Manual resolve of conflicts in:

	arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
	arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
	include/acpi/processor.h
2006-06-23 07:52:36 -07:00
James Morris
4e5ab4cb85 [SECMARK]: Add new packet controls to SELinux
Add new per-packet access controls to SELinux, replacing the old
packet controls.

Packets are labeled with the iptables SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets,
then security policy for the packets is enforced with these controls.

To allow for a smooth transition to the new controls, the old code is
still present, but not active by default.  To restore previous
behavior, the old controls may be activated at runtime by writing a
'1' to /selinux/compat_net, and also via the kernel boot parameter
selinux_compat_net.  Switching between the network control models
requires the security load_policy permission.  The old controls will
probably eventually be removed and any continued use is discouraged.

With this patch, the new secmark controls for SElinux are disabled by
default, so existing behavior is entirely preserved, and the user is
not affected at all.

It also provides a config option to enable the secmark controls by
default (which can always be overridden at boot and runtime).  It is
also noted in the kconfig help that the user will need updated
userspace if enabling secmark controls for SELinux and that they'll
probably need the SECMARK and CONNMARK targets, and conntrack protocol
helpers, although such decisions are beyond the scope of kernel
configuration.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:05 -07:00
Len Brown
36a557d1f4 Pull trivial into release branch 2006-06-15 15:40:39 -04:00
Stefan Richter
6585fa8aa5 Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: slightly reword sentence about restrictions
The previous patch somewhat diverted the train of thought.
Here I am trying to bring the valued reader back on track.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:44:30 +02:00
Stefan Richter
a901ebb907 Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:43:18 +02:00
Stefan Richter
0ee9d71f02 Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: delete false version information and history
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: delete false version information and history

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:42:29 +02:00
Horms
abe37e5a13 Documentation: Reorder documentation of nomca and nomce
My patch to add brief documentation of the nomca boot parameter
added it out of alphabetical order.

Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:36:09 +02:00
Len Brown
a1f9e65e20 [ACPI] document cmdline acpi_os_name=
This can sometimes be used to work around broken BIOS.
Use "Microsoft Windows" to take the same path
through the BIOS as Windows98 would.

The default is "Microsoft Windows NT", which
is what NT and later versions of Windows use,
and is the most tested path through most BIOS.

Set it to anything else, including "Linux", at your
own risk, as it seems that virtually no BIOS
has been tested with anything but the two options above.

Note that this uses the legacy _OS interface, so
we don't expect this to ever change.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-03-31 01:02:39 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
f1a1c2dc2a [PATCH] doc: more serial-console info
Add info on flow control for serial consoles.  Refer to netconsole option
also.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:00 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox
309e57df7b [PATCH] PCI: Provide a boot parameter to disable MSI
Several drivers are starting to grow options to disable MSI.  However,
it's often a host chipset issue, not something which individual drivers
should handle.  So we add the pci=nomsi kernel parameter to allow the user
to disable MSI modes for systems we haven't added to the quirk list yet.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-23 14:35:16 -08:00
Andrew Morton
dd287796d6 [PATCH] pause_on_oops command line option
Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.

If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time.  Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.

The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
4f88651125 [PATCH] i386: allow disabling X86_FEATURE_SEP at boot
Allow the x86 "sep" feature to be disabled at bootup.  This forces use of the
int80 vsyscall.  Mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
Andi Kleen
f9262c12c0 [PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 II
ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC
timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled.  This is
because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU
ends up processing it twice.

This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0.

I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple
and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but
to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds
options to enable/disable too)

Ported over from a similar x86-64 change.

I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but
tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI.

Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone.

Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 18:10:31 -08:00