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authorMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>2008-05-21 22:09:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-08 09:12:53 +0200
commitd11d5794e0c21a1054e6cd57381050a999ad7232 (patch)
treef30e9f4acbfe8ed52be584c0599909ebfa33af4a /arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
parenta0176e2485ce6468f9b74264a2fd6c19811f027a (diff)
x86: I/O APIC: AEOI timer acknowledgement clean-ups
The code that used to be in do_slow_gettimeoffset() that relied on the IRR bit of the master 8259A PIC for IRQ0 to check the state of the output timer 0 of the PIT is no longer there. As a result, there is no need to use the POLL command to acknowledge the timer interrupt in the "8259A Virtual Wire", except for the NMI watchdog when the i82489DX APIC is used (this is because this particular APIC treats NMIs as level-triggered and keeping the input asserted would keep motherboard NMI sources held off for too long). Remove the unneeded bits and adjust comments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
index ef1a8dfcc52..7c34e38e421 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
@@ -1669,11 +1669,8 @@ static inline void __init check_timer(void)
assign_irq_vector(0, TARGET_CPUS);
/*
- * Subtle, code in do_timer_interrupt() expects an AEOI
- * mode for the 8259A whenever interrupts are routed
- * through I/O APICs. Also IRQ0 has to be enabled in
- * the 8259A which implies the virtual wire has to be
- * disabled in the local APIC.
+ * As IRQ0 is to be enabled in the 8259A, the virtual
+ * wire has to be disabled in the local APIC.
*/
apic_write(APIC_LVT0, APIC_LVT_MASKED | APIC_DM_EXTINT);
init_8259A(1);