From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:24:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E57C8A9.1070301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo66U-La7AXCraENWOUvQAuCECRT_eGvJmxC-S4BrN=yAA@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/26/2011 09:21 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> Is there some spec that requires all IOAPICs to be 1K aligned? I
> don't doubt that's the case; I'd just like to see something more
> concrete than folklore. I'm pretty sure there's some (possibly
> secret) "IOAPIC architecture spec," and a section reference to it
> would be nice. Even before my patch, I don't think we actually
> checked or enforced any *alignment* -- we only set the size. I don't
> know if it's worth it unless we have a problem it would fix, and it's
> conceivable that we'd start warning about a perfectly functional
> IOAPIC that's 128-byte aligned.
>
The PIIX3 IOAPIC decoder could only decode addresses on a 1K
granularity, but I don't think that was architectural. I will try to ask.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-26 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-25 23:05 [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-25 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, ioapic: Announce resources reserved " Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-25 23:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes " Suresh Siddha
2011-08-26 0:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-26 1:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-26 6:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-08-26 6:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 9:22 ` Ralf Jung
2011-08-26 9:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 9:53 ` Ralf Jung
2011-08-26 9:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 6:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 16:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-26 16:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-08-26 18:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-26 19:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
[not found] ` <CAErSpo5kEw=VTVv-=_D3hQg5oRNL9yEyJUnpP0biH=t3WRXMZw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-26 21:09 ` Fwd: " Ralf Jung
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