Merge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/uv changes from Ingo Molnar: "UV2 BAU productization fixes. The BAU (Broadcast Assist Unit) is SGI's fancy out of line way on UV hardware to do TLB flushes, instead of the normal APIC IPI methods. The commits here fix / work around hangs in their latest hardware iteration (UV2). My understanding is that the main purpose of the out of line signalling channel is to improve scalability: the UV APIC hardware glue does not handle broadcasting to many CPUs very well, and this matters most for TLB shootdowns. [ I don't agree with all aspects of the current approach: in hindsight it would have been better to link the BAU at the IPI/APIC driver level instead of the TLB shootdown level, where TLB flushes are really just one of the uses of broadcast SMP messages. Doing that would improve scalability in some other ways and it would also remove a few uglies from the TLB path. It would also be nice to push more is_uv_system() tests into proper x86_init or x86_platform callbacks. Cliff? ]" * 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/uv: Work around UV2 BAU hangs x86/uv: Implement UV BAU runtime enable and disable control via /proc/sgi_uv/ x86/uv: Fix the UV BAU destination timeout period
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