From: Fenghua Yu Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:07:49 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86/apic, doc: Justification for disabling IO APIC before Local APIC X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~3833^2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2885432aaf15c1b7e65c787bfe7c5fec428296f0;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git x86/apic, doc: Justification for disabling IO APIC before Local APIC Since erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family Specification Update" is now published, I added a justification comment for disabling IO APIC before Local APIC, as changed in commit: 522e66464467 x86/apic: Disable I/O APIC before shutdown of the local APIC Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386202069-51515-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c index da3c599..c752cb4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c @@ -558,6 +558,17 @@ void native_machine_shutdown(void) { /* Stop the cpus and apics */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC + /* + * Disabling IO APIC before local APIC is a workaround for + * erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family + * Specification Update". In this situation, interrupts that target + * a Logical Processor whose Local APIC is either in the process of + * being hardware disabled or software disabled are neither delivered + * nor discarded. When this erratum occurs, the processor may hang. + * + * Even without the erratum, it still makes sense to quiet IO APIC + * before disabling Local APIC. + */ disable_IO_APIC(); #endif