linux-kernel - [tip:x86/urgent] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Fix HUB errors by remove initial write to sw-ack register

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 01:48:47 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Andrew Banman <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Fix HUB errors by remove
 initial write to sw-ack register

Commit-ID:  1b17c6df852851b40c3c27c66b8fa2fd99cf25d8
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1b17c6df852851b40c3c27c66b8fa2fd99cf25d8
Author:     Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:07:49 -0600
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:28:20 +0100

x86/platform/uv/BAU: Fix HUB errors by remove initial write to sw-ack register

Writing to the software acknowledge clear register when there are no
pending messages causes a HUB error to assert. The original intent of this
write was to clear the pending bits before start of operation, but this is
an incorrect method and has been determined to be unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: rja@....com
Cc: sivanich@....com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487351269-181133-1-git-send-email-abanman@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
index 766d4d3..f25982c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
@@ -1847,7 +1847,6 @@ static void pq_init(int node, int pnode)
 
 	ops.write_payload_first(pnode, first);
 	ops.write_payload_last(pnode, last);
-	ops.write_g_sw_ack(pnode, 0xffffUL);
 
 	/* in effect, all msg_type's are set to MSG_NOOP */
 	memset(pqp, 0, sizeof(struct bau_pq_entry) * DEST_Q_SIZE);