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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:24:49 -0300
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, tglx@...utronix.de,
mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/27] Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to
reST
Em Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:31:43 +0800
Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com> escreveu:
> This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
> add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
> ---
> .../x86/i386/{IO-APIC.txt => IO-APIC.rst} | 26 ++++++++++++-------
> Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst | 10 +++++++
> Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> rename Documentation/x86/i386/{IO-APIC.txt => IO-APIC.rst} (93%)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst
> similarity index 93%
> rename from Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
> rename to Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst
> index 15f5baf7e1b6..aec98f742763 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst
> @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +=======
> +IO-APIC
> +=======
> +
> +:Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> +
> Most (all) Intel-MP compliant SMP boards have the so-called 'IO-APIC',
> which is an enhanced interrupt controller. It enables us to route
> hardware interrupts to multiple CPUs, or to CPU groups. Without an
> @@ -13,7 +21,7 @@ usually worked around by the kernel. If your MP-compliant SMP board does
> not boot Linux, then consult the linux-smp mailing list archives first.
>
> If your box boots fine with enabled IO-APIC IRQs, then your
> -/proc/interrupts will look like this one:
> +/proc/interrupts will look like this one::
>
> ---------------------------->
...
<----------------------------
I would remove those lines, as they sounds like a way used by the
doc author to "escape" a literal block.
Either way:
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
> hell:~> cat /proc/interrupts
> @@ -37,14 +45,14 @@ none of those IRQ sources is performance-critical.
> In the unlikely case that your board does not create a working mp-table,
> you can use the pirq= boot parameter to 'hand-construct' IRQ entries. This
> is non-trivial though and cannot be automated. One sample /etc/lilo.conf
> -entry:
> +entry::
>
> append="pirq=15,11,10"
>
> The actual numbers depend on your system, on your PCI cards and on their
> PCI slot position. Usually PCI slots are 'daisy chained' before they are
> connected to the PCI chipset IRQ routing facility (the incoming PIRQ1-4
> -lines):
> +lines)::
>
> ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-.
> PIRQ4 ----| |-. ,-| |-. ,-| |-. ,-| |--------| |
> @@ -56,7 +64,7 @@ lines):
> PIRQ1 ----| |- `----| |- `----| |- `----| |--------| |
> `-' `-' `-' `-' `-'
>
> -Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD:
> +Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD::
>
> ,-.
> INTD--| |
> @@ -78,19 +86,19 @@ to have non shared interrupts). Slot5 should be used for videocards, they
> do not use interrupts normally, thus they are not daisy chained either.
>
> so if you have your SCSI card (IRQ11) in Slot1, Tulip card (IRQ9) in
> -Slot2, then you'll have to specify this pirq= line:
> +Slot2, then you'll have to specify this pirq= line::
>
> append="pirq=11,9"
>
> the following script tries to figure out such a default pirq= line from
> -your PCI configuration:
> +your PCI configuration::
>
> echo -n pirq=; echo `scanpci | grep T_L | cut -c56-` | sed 's/ /,/g'
>
> note that this script won't work if you have skipped a few slots or if your
> board does not do default daisy-chaining. (or the IO-APIC has the PIRQ pins
> connected in some strange way). E.g. if in the above case you have your SCSI
> -card (IRQ11) in Slot3, and have Slot1 empty:
> +card (IRQ11) in Slot3, and have Slot1 empty::
>
> append="pirq=0,9,11"
>
> @@ -105,7 +113,7 @@ won't function properly (e.g. if it's inserted as a module).
> If you have 2 PCI buses, then you can use up to 8 pirq values, although such
> boards tend to have a good configuration.
>
> -Be prepared that it might happen that you need some strange pirq line:
> +Be prepared that it might happen that you need some strange pirq line::
>
> append="pirq=0,0,0,0,0,0,9,11"
>
> @@ -115,5 +123,3 @@ Good luck and mail to linux-smp@...r.kernel.org or
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org if you have any problems that are not covered
> by this document.
>
> --- mingo
> -
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..8747cf5bbd49
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +============
> +i386 Support
> +============
> +
> +.. toctree::
> + :maxdepth: 2
> +
> + IO-APIC
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> index 526f7a008b8e..19323c5b89ce 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> @@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ Linux x86 Support
> microcode
> resctrl_ui
> usb-legacy-support
> + i386/index
Thanks,
Mauro
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