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  1. Jan 30, 2013
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities · 83e68189
      Matt Fleming authored 
      Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121



details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      83e68189
  3. Jan 25, 2013
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision · 712ba9e9
      Matt Fleming authored 
      
efi.runtime_version is erroneously being set to the value of the
vendor's firmware revision instead of that of the implemented EFI
specification. We can't deduce which EFI functions are available based
on the revision of the vendor's firmware since the version scheme is
likely to be unique to each vendor.

What we really need to know is the revision of the implemented EFI
specification, which is available in the EFI System Table header.

Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.7.x
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      712ba9e9
  5. Jan 24, 2013
  7. Jan 18, 2013
    • Nathan Zimmer's avatar
      efi, x86: Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog · b8f2c21d
      Nathan Zimmer authored 
      
Update efi_call_phys_prelog to install an identity mapping of all available
memory.  This corrects a bug on very large systems with more then 512 GB in
which bios would not be able to access addresses above not in the mapping.

The result is a crash that looks much like this.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020
IP: [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU 0
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.8.0-rc1-next-20121224-medusa_ntz+ #2 Intel Corp. Stoutland Platform
RIP: 0010:[<0000000078bce331>]  [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330
RSP: 0000:ffffffff81601d28  EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: 0000000078b80e18 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: 0000000078bcf958 RSI: 0000000000002400 RDI: 8000000000000000
RBP: 0000000078bcf760 R08: 000000effd870000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000000c3 R12: 0000000000000030
R13: 000000effd870000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88effd870000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88effe400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000effd870020 CR3: 000000000160c000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81600000, task ffffffff81614400)
Stack:
 0000000078b80d18 0000000000000004 0000000078bced7b ffff880078b81fff
 0000000000000000 0000000000000082 0000000078bce3a8 0000000000002400
 0000000060000202 0000000078b80da0 0000000078bce45d ffffffff8107cb5a
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8107cb5a>] ? on_each_cpu+0x77/0x83
 [<ffffffff8102f4eb>] ? change_page_attr_set_clr+0x32f/0x3ed
 [<ffffffff81035946>] ? efi_call4+0x46/0x80
 [<ffffffff816c5abb>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1f5/0x305
 [<ffffffff816aeb24>] ? start_kernel+0x34a/0x3d2
 [<ffffffff816ae5ed>] ? repair_env_string+0x60/0x60
 [<ffffffff816ae2be>] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0xba/0xc1
 [<ffffffff816ae120>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x120/0x120
 [<ffffffff816ae419>] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0x154/0x163
Code:  Bad RIP value.
RIP  [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330
 RSP <ffffffff81601d28>
CR2: 000000effd870020
---[ end trace ead828934fef5eab ]---

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      b8f2c21d
  9. Jan 04, 2013
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      X86: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. · a18e3690
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored 
      
CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitconst,
and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      a18e3690
  11. Dec 19, 2012
  13. Dec 16, 2012
  15. Nov 14, 2012
  17. Oct 30, 2012
    • Jan Beulich's avatar
      x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock (again) · bd52276f
      Jan Beulich authored 
      
Other than ix86, x86-64 on EFI so far didn't set the
{g,s}et_wallclock accessors to the EFI routines, thus
incorrectly using raw RTC accesses instead.

Simply removing the #ifdef around the respective code isn't
enough, however: While so far early get-time calls were done in
physical mode, this doesn't work properly for x86-64, as virtual
addresses would still need to be set up for all runtime regions
(which wasn't the case on the system I have access to), so
instead the patch moves the call to efi_enter_virtual_mode()
ahead (which in turn allows to drop all code related to calling
efi-get-time in physical mode).

Additionally the earlier calling of efi_set_executable()
requires the CPA code to cope, i.e. during early boot it must be
avoided to call cpa_flush_array(), as the first thing this
function does is a BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()).

Also make the two EFI functions in question here static -
they're not being referenced elsewhere.

History:

    This commit was originally merged as bacef661 ("x86-64/efi:
    Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock") but it resulted in some
    ASUS machines no longer booting due to a firmware bug, and so was
    reverted in f026cfa8. A pre-emptive fix for the buggy ASUS
    firmware was merged in 03a1c254975e ("x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable
    mapping for virtual EFI calls") so now this patch can be
    reapplied.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> [added commit history]
      bd52276f
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable mapping for virtual EFI calls · 185034e7
      Matt Fleming authored 
      
Some firmware still needs a 1:1 (virt->phys) mapping even after we've
called SetVirtualAddressMap(). So install the mapping alongside our
existing kernel mapping whenever we make EFI calls in virtual mode.

This bug was discovered on ASUS machines where the firmware
implementation of GetTime() accesses the RTC device via physical
addresses, even though that's bogus per the UEFI spec since we've
informed the firmware via SetVirtualAddressMap() that the boottime
memory map is no longer valid.

This bug seems to be present in a lot of consumer devices, so there's
not a lot we can do about this spec violation apart from workaround
it.

Cc: JérômeCarretero <cJ-ko@zougloub.eu>
Cc: Vasco Dias <rafa.vasco@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      185034e7
    • Maxime Bizon's avatar
      x86/ce4100: Fix reboot by forcing the reboot method to be KBD · d7959916
      Maxime Bizon authored 
      
The default reboot is via ACPI for this platform, and the CEFDK
bootloader actually supports this, but will issue a system power
off instead of a real reboot. Setting the reboot method to be
KBD instead of ACPI ensures proper system reboot.

Acked-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351518020-25556-3-git-send-email-ffainelli@freebox.fr


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      d7959916
    • Florian Fainelli's avatar
      x86/ce4100: Fix pm_poweroff · f49f4ab9
      Florian Fainelli authored 
      
The CE4100 platform is currently missing a proper pm_poweroff
implementation leading to poweroff making the CPU spin forever
and the CE4100 platform does not enter a low-power mode where
the external Power Management Unit can properly power off the
system. Power off on this platform is implemented pretty much
like reboot, by writing to the SoC built-in 8051 microcontroller
mapped at I/O port 0xcf9, the value 0x4.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351518020-25556-2-git-send-email-ffainelli@freebox.fr


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      f49f4ab9
  19. Oct 25, 2012
  21. Oct 24, 2012
    • Maxime Bizon's avatar
      x86: ce4100: allow second UART usage · 08ec212c
      Maxime Bizon authored 
      
The current CE4100 and 8250_pci code have both a limitation preventing the
registration and usage of CE4100's second UART. This patch changes the
platform code fixing up the UART port to work on a relative UART port
base address, as well as the 8250_pci code to make it register 2 UART ports
for CE4100 and pass the port index down to all consumers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      08ec212c
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      x86/efi: Fix oops caused by incorrect set_memory_uc() usage · 3e8fa263
      Matt Fleming authored 
      Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid. If we
encounter an efi_memory_desc_t without EFI_MEMORY_WB set in
->attribute we currently call set_memory_uc(), which in turn
calls __pa() on a potentially ioremap'd address.

On CONFIG_X86_32 this results in the following oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f7f22280
  IP: [<c10257b9>] reserve_ram_pages_type+0x89/0x210
  *pdpt = 0000000001978001 *pde = 0000000001ffb067 *pte = 0000000000000000
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-acpi-efi-0805 #3
   EIP: 0060:[<c10257b9>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
   EIP is at reserve_ram_pages_type+0x89/0x210
   EAX: 0070e280 EBX: 38714000 ECX: f7814000 EDX: 00000000
   ESI: 00000000 EDI: 38715000 EBP: c189fef0 ESP: c189fea8
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
  Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c189e000 task=c18bbe60 task.ti=c189e000)
  Stack:
   80000200 ff108000 00000000 c189ff00 00038714 00000000 00000000 c189fed0
   c104f8ca 00038714 00000000 00038715 00000000 00000000 00038715 00000000
   00000010 38715000 c189ff48 c1025aff 38715000 00000000 00000010 00000000
  Call Trace:
   [<c104f8ca>] ? page_is_ram+0x1a/0x40
   [<c1025aff>] reserve_memtype+0xdf/0x2f0
   [<c1024dc9>] set_memory_uc+0x49/0xa0
   [<c19334d0>] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1c2/0x3aa
   [<c19216d4>] start_kernel+0x291/0x2f2
   [<c19211c7>] ? loglevel+0x1b/0x1b
   [<c19210bf>] i386_start_kernel+0xbf/0xc8

The only time we can call set_memory_uc() for a memory region is
when it is part of the direct kernel mapping. For the case where
we ioremap a memory region we must leave it alone.

This patch reimplements the fix from e8c71062 ("x86, efi:
Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid") which
was reverted in e1ad783b because it caused a regression on
some MacBooks (they hung at boot). The regression was caused
because the commit only marked EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA as
E820_RESERVED_EFI, when it should have marked all regions that
have the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute.

Despite first impressions, it's not possible to use
ioremap_cache() to map all cached memory regions on
CONFIG_X86_64 because of the way that the memory map might be
configured as detailed in the following bug report,

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748516



e.g. some of the EFI memory regions *need* to be mapped as part
of the direct kernel mapping.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350649546-23541-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      3e8fa263
  23. Sep 29, 2012
  25. Sep 17, 2012
  27. Aug 14, 2012
  29. Aug 01, 2012
  31. Jul 12, 2012
  33. Jun 28, 2012
    • Alex Shi's avatar
      x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range · e7b52ffd
      Alex Shi authored 
      x86 has no flush_tlb_range support in instruction level. Currently the
flush_tlb_range just implemented by flushing all page table. That is not
the best solution for all scenarios. In fact, if we just use 'invlpg' to
flush few lines from TLB, we can get the performance gain from later
remain TLB lines accessing.

But the 'invlpg' instruction costs much of time. Its execution time can
compete with cr3 rewriting, and even a bit more on SNB CPU.

So, on a 512 4KB TLB entries CPU, the balance points is at:
	(512 - X) * 100ns(assumed TLB refill cost) =
		X(TLB flush entries) * 100ns(assumed invlpg cost)

Here, X is 256, that is 1/2 of 512 entries.

But with the mysterious CPU pre-fetcher and page miss handler Unit, the
assumed TLB refill cost is far lower then 100ns in sequential access. And
2 HT siblings in one core makes the memory access more faster if they are
accessing the same memory. So, in the patch, I just do the change when
the target entries is less than 1/16 of whole active tlb entries.
Actually, I have no data support for the percentage '1/16', so any
suggestions are welcomed.

As to hugetlb, guess due to smaller page table, and smaller active TLB
entries, I didn't see benefit via my benchmark, so no optimizing now.

My micro benchmark show in ideal scenarios, the performance improves 70
percent in reading. And in worst scenario, the reading/writing
performance is similar with unpatched 3.4-rc4 kernel.

Here is the reading data on my 2P * 4cores *HT NHM EP machine, with THP
'always':

multi thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
	       	        with patch   unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect -t 1           14ns		24ns
./mprotect -t 2           13ns		22ns
./mprotect -t 4           12ns		19ns
./mprotect -t 8           14ns		16ns
./mprotect -t 16          28ns		26ns
./mprotect -t 32          54ns		51ns
./mprotect -t 128         200ns		199ns

Single process with sequencial flushing and memory accessing:

		       	with patch   unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect		    7ns			11ns
./mprotect -p 4096  -l 8 -n 10240
			    21ns		21ns

[ hpa: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1B4B44D9196EFF41AE41FDA404FC0A100BFF94@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com


  has additional performance numbers. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      e7b52ffd
  35. Jun 25, 2012
    • Cliff Wickman's avatar
      x86/uv: Work around UV2 BAU hangs · 8b6e511e
      Cliff Wickman authored 
      
On SGI's UV2 the BAU (Broadcast Assist Unit) driver can hang
under a heavy load. To cure this:

- Disable the UV2 extended status mode (see UV2_EXT_SHFT), as
  this mode changes BAU behavior in more ways then just delivering
  an extra bit of status.  Revert status to just two meaningful bits,
  like UV1.

- Use no IPI-style resets on UV2.  Just give up the request for
  whatever the reason it failed and let it be accomplished with
  the legacy IPI method.

- Use no alternate sending descriptor (the former UV2 workaround
  bcp->using_desc and handle_uv2_busy() stuff).  Just disable the
  use of the BAU for a period of time in favor of the legacy IPI
  method when the h/w bug leaves a descriptor busy.

  -- new tunable: giveup_limit determines the threshold at which a hub is
     so plugged that it should do all requests with the legacy IPI method for a
     period of time
  -- generalize disable_for_congestion() (renamed disable_for_period()) for
     use whenever a hub should avoid using the BAU for a period of time

Also:

 - Fix find_another_by_swack(), which is part of the UV2 bug workaround

 - Correct and clarify the statistics (new stats s_overipilimit, s_giveuplimit,
   s_enters, s_ipifordisabled, s_plugged, s_congested)

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120622131459.GC31884@sgi.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      8b6e511e
    • Cliff Wickman's avatar
      x86/uv: Implement UV BAU runtime enable and disable control via /proc/sgi_uv/ · 26ef8577
      Cliff Wickman authored 
      
This patch enables the BAU to be turned on or off dynamically.

  echo "on"  > /proc/sgi_uv/ptc_statistics
  echo "off" > /proc/sgi_uv/ptc_statistics

The system may be booted with or without the nobau option.

Whether the system currently has the BAU off can be seen in
the /proc file -- normally with the baustats script.
Each cpu will have a 1 in the bauoff field if the BAU was turned
off, so baustats will give a count of cpus that have it off.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120622131330.GB31884@sgi.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      26ef8577
    • Cliff Wickman's avatar
      x86/uv: Fix the UV BAU destination timeout period · 11cab711
      Cliff Wickman authored 
      
Correct the calculation of a destination timeout period, which
is used to distinguish between a destination timeout and the
situation where all the target software ack resources are full
and a request is returned immediately.

The problem is that integer arithmetic was overflowing, yielding
a very large result.

Without this fix destination timeouts are identified as resource
'plugged' events and an ipi method of resource releasing is
unnecessarily employed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120622131212.GA31884@sgi.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      11cab711
  37. Jun 15, 2012
  39. Jun 14, 2012
  41. Jun 08, 2012
    • Cliff Wickman's avatar
      x86/uv: Fix UV2 BAU legacy mode · d5d2d2ee
      Cliff Wickman authored 
      
The SGI Altix UV2 BAU (Broadcast Assist Unit) as used for
tlb-shootdown (selective broadcast mode) always uses UV2
broadcast descriptor format. There is no need to clear the
'legacy' (UV1) mode, because the hardware always uses UV2 mode
for selective broadcast.

But the BIOS uses general broadcast and legacy mode, and the
hardware pays attention to the legacy mode bit for general
broadcast. So the kernel must not clear that mode bit.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1SccoO-0002Lh-Cb@eag09.americas.sgi.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      d5d2d2ee
    • Alexander Gordeev's avatar
      x86/apic: Make cpu_mask_to_apicid() operations return error code · ff164324
      Alexander Gordeev authored 
      
Current cpu_mask_to_apicid() and cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
implementations have few shortcomings:

1. A value returned by cpu_mask_to_apicid() is written to
hardware registers unconditionally. Should BAD_APICID get ever
returned it will be written to a hardware too. But the value of
BAD_APICID is not universal across all hardware in all modes and
might cause unexpected results, i.e. interrupts might get routed
to CPUs that are not configured to receive it.

2. Because the value of BAD_APICID is not universal it is
counter- intuitive to return it for a hardware where it does not
make sense (i.e. x2apic).

3. cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() operation is thought as an
complement to cpu_mask_to_apicid() that only applies a AND mask
on top of a cpumask being passed. Yet, as consequence of 18374d89
commit the two operations are inconsistent in that of:
  cpu_mask_to_apicid() should not get a offline CPU with the cpumask
  cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() should not fail and return BAD_APICID
These limitations are impossible to realize just from looking at
the operations prototypes.

Most of these shortcomings are resolved by returning a error
code instead of BAD_APICID. As the result, faults are reported
back early rather than possibilities to cause a unexpected
behaviour exist (in case of [1]).

The only exception is setup_timer_IRQ0_pin() routine. Although
obviously controversial to this fix, its existing behaviour is
preserved to not break the fragile check_timer() and would
better addressed in a separate fix.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120607131559.GF4759@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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