Package: kernel-source-2.4.27
Version: 2.4.27-8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The 2.6 kernel series has, since 2.6.5, had a fix for an erroneous timer
override present in many BIOSes in nforce[23] chipsets. The 2.4 series
is missing this, resulting in an XT_PIC timer on systems that have an
APIC-enabled kernel. This is believed to cause system instability,
including hard lock-ups (with no ssh). At my request, Zwane Mwaikambo
has kindly backported the fix for 2.4.30 and Ihave found that this patch
works almost unaltered on Debian's kernel-source-2.4.27. Bearing in mind
the proximity of Sarge's release and especially d-i rc3, I thought I
should send you the patch for review now.
Maybe this will have to be a post-Sarge item but there is a lot of
cheap nforce2 out there and 2.6.8 may not be suitable for everyone so I
hope you can consider this patch for inclusion in Sarge's 2.4.27.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27.20050219.0
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages kernel-source-2.4.27 depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
-- no debconf information
# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
# 2005/02/18 07:53:21-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 -0
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# include/asm-i386/pci-direct.h
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 -0
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# include/asm-i386/acpi.h
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +2 -0
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +7 -3
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +7 -0
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +53 -0
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +9 -0
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
# arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
# 2005/02/18 07:53:18-07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 -1
# ACPI skip_timer_override backport from 2.6 including early PCI bridge detection.
#
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) += acpi_wakeup.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += smp.o smpboot.o trampoline.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) += mpparse.o apic.o nmi.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC) += io_apic.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC) += io_apic.o earlyquirk.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_VISWS_APIC) += visws_apic.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_EMU486) += emu.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EDD) += edd.o
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
acpi_interrupt_flags acpi_sci_flags __initdata;
int acpi_sci_override_gsi __initdata;
+int acpi_skip_timer_override __initdata;
/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot-time Configuration
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -320,6 +321,12 @@
return 0;
}
+ if (acpi_skip_timer_override &&
+ intsrc->bus_irq == 0 && intsrc->global_irq == 2) {
+ printk(PREFIX "BIOS IRQ0 pin2 override ignored.\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
mp_override_legacy_irq (
intsrc->bus_irq,
intsrc->flags.polarity,
@@ -433,6 +440,8 @@
return result;
}
+ check_acpi_pci();
+
result = acpi_blacklisted();
if (result) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE PREFIX "BIOS listed in blacklist, disabling ACPI support\n");
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c b/arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/earlyquirk.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Do early PCI probing for bug detection when the main PCI subsystem is
+ * not up yet.
+ */
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <asm/pci-direct.h>
+#include <asm/acpi.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+static int __init check_bridge(int vendor, int device)
+{
+ /* According to Nvidia all timer overrides are bogus. Just ignore
+ them all. */
+ if (vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA) {
+ acpi_skip_timer_override = 1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+void __init check_acpi_pci(void)
+{
+ int num,slot,func;
+
+ /* Assume the machine supports type 1. If not it will
+ always read ffffffff and should not have any side effect. */
+
+ /* Poor man's PCI discovery */
+ for (num = 0; num < 32; num++) {
+ for (slot = 0; slot < 32; slot++) {
+ for (func = 0; func < 8; func++) {
+ u32 class;
+ u32 vendor;
+ class = read_pci_config(num,slot,func,
+ PCI_CLASS_REVISION);
+ if (class == 0xffffffff)
+ break;
+
+ if ((class >> 16) != PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_PCI)
+ continue;
+
+ vendor = read_pci_config(num, slot, func,
+ PCI_VENDOR_ID);
+
+ if (check_bridge(vendor&0xffff, vendor >> 16))
+ return;
+ }
+
+ }
+ }
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ACPI */
diff -Nru a/arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
acpi_interrupt_flags acpi_sci_flags __initdata;
int acpi_sci_override_gsi __initdata;
+int acpi_skip_timer_override __initdata;
/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot-time Configuration
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -330,6 +331,12 @@
if (intsrc->bus_irq == acpi_fadt.sci_int) {
acpi_sci_ioapic_setup(intsrc->global_irq,
intsrc->flags.polarity, intsrc->flags.trigger);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (acpi_skip_timer_override &&
+ intsrc->bus_irq == 0 && intsrc->global_irq == 2) {
+ printk(PREFIX "BIOS IRQ0 pin2 override ignored.\n");
return 0;
}
diff -Nru a/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -259,10 +259,14 @@
case PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA:
return;
case PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA:
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+ /* All timer overrides on Nvidia
+ seem to be wrong. Skip them. */
+ acpi_skip_timer_override = 1;
printk(KERN_INFO
- "PCI bridge %02x:%02x from %x found. Setting \"noapic\". Overwrite with \"apic\"\n",
- num,slot,vendor);
- skip_ioapic_setup = 1;
+ "Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.\n");
+#endif
+ /* RED-PEN skip them on mptables too? */
return;
}
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/acpi.h b/include/asm-i386/acpi.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/acpi.h 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/include/asm-i386/acpi.h 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@
extern int acpi_strict;
extern int acpi_disabled;
extern int acpi_ht;
+extern int acpi_skip_timer_override;
+void __init check_acpi_pci(void);
static inline void disable_acpi(void)
{
acpi_disabled = 1;
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/pci-direct.h b/include/asm-i386/pci-direct.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/pci-direct.h 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pci-direct.h 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "asm-x86_64/pci-direct.h"
diff -Nru a/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h b/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h 2005-02-18 07:53:58 -07:00
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
extern int acpi_strict;
extern int acpi_disabled;
extern int acpi_ht;
+extern int acpi_skip_timer_override;
static inline void disable_acpi(void)
{
acpi_disabled = 1;
