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* patch "x86: MOVE PCI IO ECS code to x86/pci" breaks CPU hotplug
@ 2008-08-21 12:59 Jan Beulich
  2008-08-21 13:29 ` Robert Richter
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Jan Beulich @ 2008-08-21 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: robert.richter, Ingo Molnar; +Cc: linux-kernel

>Converting __cpuinit functions called out of init_amd() (and similar others)
>to __init (and making them subject of xxx_initcall() handling isn't valid, as
>they would no longer be called for hot plugged CPUs.
>
>Further, since it's likely that in virtualized environments the MSR write
>would at best be ignored, I'd also recommend using the fault-safe
>accessors here *and* check that the bit actually got set before setting
>PCI_HAS_IO_ECS (one would obviously have to BUG() when hot-plugged
>CPUs fail to set the bit when those available at boot successfully did so).

Even worse - this would even try to access the MSR on non-AMD CPUs
(currently probably prevented just by the fact that only AMD ones use
family values of 0x10 or higher).

Jan


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2008-08-21 12:59 patch "x86: MOVE PCI IO ECS code to x86/pci" breaks CPU hotplug Jan Beulich
2008-08-21 13:29 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-21 16:25   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-21 16:46     ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:23 ` [PATCH] x86: fix: do not run code in amd_bus.c on non-AMD CPUs Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:47   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 18:51     ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:57       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 19:13         ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:23 ` [PATCH] x86: fix: make PCI ECS for AMD CPUs hotplug capable Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:56   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 19:07     ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 19:10       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 19:20         ` Robert Richter
2008-08-23 15:37   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-23 15:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25  9:00     ` [PATCH] x86: fix: make PCI ECS for AMD CPUs hotplug capable (-v2) Robert Richter
2008-08-25  9:12       ` Ingo Molnar

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