Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] disable LAPIC completely for offline CPU | From | Shaohua Li <> | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:07:58 -0800 |
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Disabling LAPIC timer isn't sufficient. In some situations, such as we enabled NMI watchdog, there is still unexpected interrupt (such as NMI) invoked in offline CPU. This also avoids offline CPU receives spurious interrupt and anything similar.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> ---
linux-2.6.14-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c | 3 +-- linux-2.6.14-root/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c~cpuhp-disable-lapic arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c --- linux-2.6.14/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c~cpuhp-disable-lapic 2005-11-23 19:27:36.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.14-root/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c 2005-11-23 19:28:27.000000000 -0800 @@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ int __cpu_disable(void) if (cpu == 0) return -EBUSY; - disable_APIC_timer(); + disable_local_APIC(); /* * HACK: diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c~cpuhp-disable-lapic arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c --- linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c~cpuhp-disable-lapic 2005-11-23 19:28:38.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.14-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2005-11-23 19:30:05.000000000 -0800 @@ -1338,8 +1338,7 @@ int __cpu_disable(void) if (cpu == 0) return -EBUSY; - /* We enable the timer again on the exit path of the death loop */ - disable_APIC_timer(); + disable_local_APIC(); /* Allow any queued timer interrupts to get serviced */ local_irq_enable(); mdelay(1); _
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