From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: [PATHC -tip 1/2] x86, nmi: Define a name for NMI control port
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:40:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6C163A.4010904@openvz.org> (raw)
Also add a comment anout why we need in-out operations.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <asm/mc146818rtc.h>
#define NMI_REASON_PORT 0x61
+#define NMI_ENABLE_PORT 0x70 /* Real-Time Clock Address Register as well */
#define NMI_REASON_SERR 0x80
#define NMI_REASON_IOCHK 0x40
@@ -30,12 +31,19 @@ static inline void reassert_nmi(void)
old_reg = current_lock_cmos_reg();
else
lock_cmos(0); /* register doesn't matter here */
- outb(0x8f, 0x70);
- inb(0x71); /* dummy */
- outb(0x0f, 0x70);
- inb(0x71); /* dummy */
+
+ /*
+ * This will cause the NMI output to transition low
+ * then high if there are any pending NMI sources. The
+ * CPU's NMI input logic will then register a new NMI.
+ */
+ outb(0x8f, NMI_ENABLE_PORT);
+ inb(0x71); /* dummy */
+ outb(0x0f, NMI_ENABLE_PORT);
+ inb(0x71); /* dummy */
+
if (old_reg >= 0)
- outb(old_reg, 0x70);
+ outb(old_reg, NMI_ENABLE_PORT);
else
unlock_cmos();
}
--
Cyrill
next reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-28 21:40 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2011-03-01 7:57 ` [PATHC -tip 1/2] x86, nmi: Define a name for NMI control port Ingo Molnar
2011-03-01 8:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-03-01 17:33 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-03-01 17:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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