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Commit 023de4a0 authored by Maciej W. Rozycki's avatar Maciej W. Rozycki Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/apic: Reinstate error IRQ Pentium erratum 3AP workaround

A change introduced with commit 60283df7


("x86/apic: Read Error Status Register correctly") removed a read from the
APIC ESR register made before writing to same required to retrieve the
correct error status on Pentium systems affected by the 3AP erratum[1]:

	"3AP. Writes to Error Register Clears Register

	PROBLEM: The APIC Error register is intended to only be read.
	If there is a write to this register the data in the APIC Error
	register will be cleared and lost.

	IMPLICATION: There is a possibility of clearing the Error
	register status since the write to the register is not
	specifically blocked.

	WORKAROUND: Writes should not occur to the Pentium processor
	APIC Error register.

	STATUS: For the steppings affected see the Summary Table of
	Changes at the beginning of this section."

The steppings affected are actually: B1, B3 and B5.

To avoid this information loss this change avoids the write to
ESR on all Pentium systems where it is actually never needed;
in Pentium processor documentation ESR was noted read-only and
the write only required for future architectural
compatibility[2].

The approach taken is the same as in lapic_setup_esr().

References:

	[1] "Pentium Processor Family Developer's Manual", Intel Corporation,
	    1997, order number 241428-005, Appendix A "Errata and S-Specs for the
	    Pentium Processor Family", p. A-92,

	[2] "Pentium Processor Family Developer's Manual, Volume 3: Architecture
	    and Programming Manual", Intel Corporation, 1995, order number
	    241430-004, Section 19.3.3. "Error Handling In APIC", p. 19-33.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.11.1404011300010.27402@eddie.linux-mips.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 176ab02d
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