alistair23-linux/arch/x86
Cliff Wickman c5d35d399e x86/UV2: Work around BAU bug
This patch implements a workaround for a UV2 hardware bug.
The bug is a non-atomic update of a memory-mapped register. When
hardware message delivery and software message acknowledge occur
simultaneously the pending message acknowledge for the arriving
message may be lost.  This causes the sender's message status to
stay busy.

Part of the workaround is to not acknowledge a completed message
until it is verified that no other message is actually using the
resource that is mistakenly recorded in the completed message.

Part of the workaround is to test for long elapsed time in such
a busy condition, then handle it by using a spare sending
descriptor. The stay-busy condition is eventually timed out by
hardware, and then the original sending descriptor can be
re-used. Most of that logic change is in keeping track of the
current descriptor and the state of the spares.

The occurrences of the workaround are added to the BAU
statistics.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120116211947.GC5767@sgi.com
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-17 09:09:54 +01:00
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crypto Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
ia32 x86-64: Cleanup some assembly entry points 2011-12-05 17:24:43 +01:00
include/asm x86/UV2: Work around BAU bug 2012-01-17 09:09:54 +01:00
kernel x86, UV: Update Boot messages for SGI UV2 platform 2012-01-08 12:35:44 +01:00
kvm KVM: Don't automatically expose the TSC deadline timer in cpuid 2011-12-26 13:27:44 +02:00
lguest
lib Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-06 13:59:14 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-06 14:00:12 -08:00
net net: bpf_jit: fix an off-one bug in x86_64 cond jump target 2011-12-19 15:47:29 -05:00
oprofile Merge branch 'core' of git://amd64.org/linux/rric into perf/core 2011-11-15 11:05:18 +01:00
pci
platform x86/UV2: Work around BAU bug 2012-01-17 09:09:54 +01:00
power
tools x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode 2011-12-05 14:53:23 +01:00
um fix braino in um patchset (mea culpa) 2011-11-21 12:10:21 -08:00
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video
xen Merge branch 'memblock-kill-early_node_map' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/memblock 2011-12-20 12:14:26 +01:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-06 13:58:21 -08:00
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