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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c index 4fb347f01653..9806f9605bc4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c @@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ * and Rolf G. Tews * for testing these extensively * Paul Diefenbaugh : Added full ACPI support + * + * Historical information which is worth to be preserved: + * + * - SiS APIC rmw bug: + * + * We used to have a workaround for a bug in SiS chips which + * required to rewrite the index register for a read-modify-write + * operation as the chip lost the index information which was + * setup for the read already. We cache the data now, so that + * workaround has been removed. */ #include <linux/mm.h> @@ -66,17 +76,6 @@ #define for_each_irq_pin(entry, head) \ list_for_each_entry(entry, &head, list) -/* - * Is the SiS APIC rmw bug present ? - * -1 = don't know, 0 = no, 1 = yes - * When doing a read-modify-write operation on IOAPIC registers, older SiS APIC - * requires we rewrite the index register again where the read already set up - * the index register. - * The code to make use of sis_apic_bug has been removed, but we don't want to - * lose this knowledge. - */ -int sis_apic_bug = -1; - static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(ioapic_lock); static DEFINE_MUTEX(ioapic_mutex); static unsigned int ioapic_dynirq_base; @@ -2320,20 +2319,6 @@ void __init setup_IO_APIC(void) ioapic_initialized = 1; } -/* - * Called after all the initialization is done. If we didn't find any - * APIC bugs then we can allow the modify fast path - */ - -static int __init io_apic_bug_finalize(void) -{ - if (sis_apic_bug == -1) - sis_apic_bug = 0; - return 0; -} - -late_initcall(io_apic_bug_finalize); - static void resume_ioapic_id(int ioapic_idx) { unsigned long flags; |