linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: adjust irq remapping quirk for older revisions of 5500/5520 chipsets

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Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:05:40 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: adjust irq remapping quirk for older revisions of
 5500/5520 chipsets

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:44:33PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> A while back I posted this commit:
> 
> commit 03bbcb2e7e292838bb0244f5a7816d194c911d62
> Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Date:   Tue Apr 16 16:38:32 2013 -0400
> 
>     iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets
> 
> Which properly disables irq remapping on the 5500/5520 chipsets that don't
> correctly perform that feature.  However, when I wrote it, I followed the errata
> sheet linked in that commit too closely, and explicitly tied the activation of
> the quirk to revision 0x13 of the chip, under the assumption that earlier
> revisions were not in the field.  Recently a system was reported to be suffering
> from this remap bug and the quirk hadn't triggered, because the revision id
> register read at a lower value that 0x13, so the quirk test failed improperly.
> Given this, it seems only prudent to adjust this quirk so that any revision less
> than 0x13 has the quirk asserted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> CC: x86@...nel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
> index bc4a088..2237b36 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static void __init intel_remapping_check(int num, int slot, int func)
>  	 * and should be flagged as broken.  Additionally revisions 0x12
>  	 * and 0x22 of device id 0x3405 has this problem.
>  	 */
> -	if (revision == 0x13)
> +	if (revision < 0x13)
>  		set_irq_remapping_broken();
>  	else if ((device == 0x3405) &&
>  	    ((revision == 0x12) ||
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 
Shoot, self-NAK, that should be <=, new post shortly.
Neil

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