Re: PCI MSI breaks when booting with nosmp

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Le mercredi 23 avril 2008, Jesse Barnes a écrit :
> On Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:13 am Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > Yeah I think the patch is reasonable, would be good to get feedback from
> > > Thomas/Andi/Ingo though...
> >
> >  FWIW, the original idea behind "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" (just as an
> > implementation detail) vs "maxcpus=1" was that the two formers would
> > disable the APIC circuitry altogether (including resisting from switching
> > from the PIC compatibility mode on systems supporting it), while the
> > latter would still boot UP, but with interrupts routed through the APICs.
> > Essentially SMP implied all the MP circuitry/provisions in this context,
> > the APICs being an inherent part of which.  Therefore I think the original
> > idea of implying "pci=nomsi" with "nosmp" certainly looks more in the
> > spirit of the original setup to me.
> >
> >  However we have "nolapic" these days as well and with this new proposal
> > this option could effectively take over the old meaning of "nosmp" (you
> > cannot do SMP without the local APIC, so "nolapic nosmp" is redundant).
> > I am not entirely convinced it is the right way though...
> 
> Yeah, I'm not particularly attached to either meaning.  It looks like we'll 
> setup the local apic on 32 bit if the NMI vector is a local apic one, so in 
> that case at least the behavior will be the same.
> 
> Anyway, we have two options:
>   1) make nosmp/maxcpus=1 imply nolapic (and therefore disable MSI too)
>   2) make nosmp enable the lapic (so MSI will work)

No opinion. As long as I can boot with "nosmp" and things work, I'm
happy.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3