linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs

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Date:	Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:05:39 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	RalfJungralfjung-e@....de, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs

Previously we reserved 1024 bytes, but that's more space than the IOAPIC
consumes, and it can cause conflicts with nearby devices.  The known
requirement is 68 bytes (sizeof(struct io_apic)), and rounding up to a
power-of-2 gives us 128.

The bug reported below is caused by the following assignments (the IOAPIC
power-on default and the watchdog address recommended in the AMD SP5100
BIOS Developer's Guide):

  IOAPIC[0]        at [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec003ff]
  SP5100 TCO timer at [mem 0xfec000f0-0xfec000f7]

Reported-by: Ralf Jung ralfjung-e@....de
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638863
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h
index 34595d5..855a18a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 #define	APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE		0xfee00000
 
 /*
- * This is the IO-APIC register space as specified
- * by Intel docs:
+ * I/O APICs are accessed indirectly via an index/data pair and an EOI
+ * register.  For example, see sec 13.5.1, "APIC Register Map," in the
+ * Intel ICH10 datasheet and the struct io_apic definition.
  */
-#define IO_APIC_SLOT_SIZE		1024
+#define IO_APIC_SLOT_SIZE		128
 
 #define	APIC_ID		0x20
 

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