2.4.31 - nforce chipset timer override bios bug workaround

2.4.31 - nforce chipset timer override bios bug workaround

[Tymm Twillman]

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In the 2.4.30/31 kernels there is now a backport from the 2.6 kernels of 
a workaround for buggy timer overrides in the ACPI tables for many 
nvidia chipset based motherboards.  Unfortunately the code for this on 
x86-64 based systems is conditionally compiled in only for non-SMP 
kernels.  This is a patch to remove the conditional and allow the code 
to be compiled in for SMP kernels as well (we've seen a number of SMP 
motherboards which intermittently lock up during boot, and otherwise 
sometimes seem unstable without the workaround).  Patch so far has been 
tested across numerous reboots and several hours uptime.

Also part of this patch is modifications to avoid referencing the 
variable "swiotlb" from pci-gart.c when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is not set; 
without modification, an x86_64 kernel without CONFIG_SWIOTLB set breaks 
during compilation of arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c.

All small changes & straightforward; don't think there's anything to 
worry about WRT enabling the override workaround code on SMP boxes, 
although I'd appreciate verification from someone more familiar with the 
setup code.

Thanks,

-Tymm

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diff -urN linux-2.4.31-vanilla/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c linux-2.4.31/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c
--- linux-2.4.31-vanilla/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c	2005-04-03 18:42:19.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.4.31/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c	2005-06-10 03:12:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@
 
 __setup("apic", ioapic_setup);
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 #include <asm/pci-direct.h>
 #include <linux/pci_ids.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
@@ -279,7 +278,6 @@
 		}
 	}
 } 
-#endif
 
 static int __init ioapic_pirq_setup(char *str)
 {
diff -urN linux-2.4.31-vanilla/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c linux-2.4.31/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
--- linux-2.4.31-vanilla/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c	2005-05-31 17:56:56.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.4.31/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c	2005-06-10 04:45:54.000000000 -0700
@@ -155,7 +155,12 @@
 	int i;
 	unsigned long iommu_page;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
 	if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask < 0xffffffff || (no_iommu && !swiotlb))
+#else
+	if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask < 0xffffffff || (no_iommu))
+
+#endif
 		gfp |= GFP_DMA;
 
 	/* 
diff -urN linux-2.4.31-vanilla/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c linux-2.4.31/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
--- linux-2.4.31-vanilla/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c	2005-04-03 18:42:19.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.4.31/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c	2005-06-10 04:57:36.000000000 -0700
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@
 int acpi_disabled;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_disabled);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
 int swiotlb;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(swiotlb);
+#endif
 
 extern	int phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS];
 
@@ -304,7 +306,7 @@
 #endif
 
 	paging_init();
-#if !defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC)
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC)
 	extern void check_ioapic(void);
 	check_ioapic();
 #endif