x86/irq: Remove sis apic bug workaround
The SiS apic bug workaround is now obsolete as we cache the register
values for performance reasons.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428978610-28986-22-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
index 4fb347f..9806f96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@
* and Rolf G. Tews
* for testing these extensively
* Paul Diefenbaugh : Added full ACPI support
+ *
+ * Historical information which is worth to be preserved:
+ *
+ * - SiS APIC rmw bug:
+ *
+ * We used to have a workaround for a bug in SiS chips which
+ * required to rewrite the index register for a read-modify-write
+ * operation as the chip lost the index information which was
+ * setup for the read already. We cache the data now, so that
+ * workaround has been removed.
*/
#include <linux/mm.h>
@@ -66,17 +76,6 @@
#define for_each_irq_pin(entry, head) \
list_for_each_entry(entry, &head, list)
-/*
- * Is the SiS APIC rmw bug present ?
- * -1 = don't know, 0 = no, 1 = yes
- * When doing a read-modify-write operation on IOAPIC registers, older SiS APIC
- * requires we rewrite the index register again where the read already set up
- * the index register.
- * The code to make use of sis_apic_bug has been removed, but we don't want to
- * lose this knowledge.
- */
-int sis_apic_bug = -1;
-
static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(ioapic_lock);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(ioapic_mutex);
static unsigned int ioapic_dynirq_base;
@@ -2320,20 +2319,6 @@
ioapic_initialized = 1;
}
-/*
- * Called after all the initialization is done. If we didn't find any
- * APIC bugs then we can allow the modify fast path
- */
-
-static int __init io_apic_bug_finalize(void)
-{
- if (sis_apic_bug == -1)
- sis_apic_bug = 0;
- return 0;
-}
-
-late_initcall(io_apic_bug_finalize);
-
static void resume_ioapic_id(int ioapic_idx)
{
unsigned long flags;