Since erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family
Specification Update" is now published, I added a justification
comment for disabling IO APIC before Local APIC, as changed in commit:
522e66464467 x86/apic: Disable I/O APIC before shutdown of the local APIC
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386202069-51515-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
{
/* Stop the cpus and apics */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
{
/* Stop the cpus and apics */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
+ /*
+ * Disabling IO APIC before local APIC is a workaround for
+ * erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family
+ * Specification Update". In this situation, interrupts that target
+ * a Logical Processor whose Local APIC is either in the process of
+ * being hardware disabled or software disabled are neither delivered
+ * nor discarded. When this erratum occurs, the processor may hang.
+ *
+ * Even without the erratum, it still makes sense to quiet IO APIC
+ * before disabling Local APIC.
+ */
disable_IO_APIC();
#endif
disable_IO_APIC();
#endif