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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2010-01-18 12:10:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-01-18 14:15:27 -0800 |
| commit | dfea91d5a7c795fd6f4e1a97489a98e4e767463e (patch) | |
| tree | f4e60892201bd21cb0f1c462861dd28f3c0437d2 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | 54ef91dcf094313fb4fbe87713c11fb55bcf15a9 (diff) | |
x86, apic: use physical mode for IBM summit platforms
Chris McDermott from IBM confirmed that hurricane chipset in IBM summit
platforms doesn't support logical flat mode. Irrespective of the other
things like apic_id's, total number of logical cpu's, Linux kernel
should default to physical mode for this system.
The 32-bit kernel does so using the OEM checks for the IBM summit
platform. Add a similar OEM platform check for the 64bit kernel too.
Otherwise the linux kernel boot can hang on this platform under certain
bios/platform settings.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris McDermott <lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c index eacbd2b31d2..e3c3d820c32 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c @@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ static int physflat_acpi_madt_oem_check(char *oem_id, char *oem_table_id) printk(KERN_DEBUG "system APIC only can use physical flat"); return 1; } + + if (!strncmp(oem_id, "IBM", 3) && !strncmp(oem_table_id, "EXA", 3)) { + printk(KERN_DEBUG "IBM Summit detected, will use apic physical"); + return 1; + } #endif return 0; |