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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2011-08-23 17:05:18 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-09-21 10:21:50 +0200
commit41750d31fc9599fd81763e685a6b7b42d298c4f8 (patch)
tree6cacc746aa159c8bd08f151270f0bffe126caa9d /Documentation
parent9d037a777695993ec7437e5f451647dea7919d4c (diff)
x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout
On the platforms which are x2apic and interrupt-remapping capable, Linux kernel is enabling x2apic even if the BIOS doesn't. This is to take advantage of the features that x2apic brings in. Some of the OEM platforms are running into issues because of this, as their bios is not x2apic aware. For example, this was resulting in interrupt migration issues on one of the platforms. Also if the BIOS SMI handling uses APIC interface to send SMI's, then the BIOS need to be aware of x2apic mode that OS has enabled. On some of these platforms, BIOS doesn't have a HW mechanism to turnoff the x2apic feature to prevent OS from enabling it. To resolve this mess, recent changes to the VT-d2 specification: http://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Direct_IO.pdf includes a mechanism that provides BIOS a way to request system software to opt out of enabling x2apic mode. Look at the x2apic optout flag in the DMAR tables before enabling the x2apic mode in the platform. Also print a warning that we have disabled x2apic based on the BIOS request. Kernel boot parameter "intremap=no_x2apic_optout" can be used to override the BIOS x2apic optout request. Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: yinghai@kernel.org Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824001456.171766616@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 854ed5ca7e3f..13865568809e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1014,10 +1014,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
has the capability. With this option, super page will
not be supported.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
- Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
off disable Interrupt Remapping
nosid disable Source ID checking
+ no_x2apic_optout
+ BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
inttest= [IA-64]