Re: 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 SMP

From: Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 02:11:36 EST


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, James Cleverdon wrote:

> Ah ha! Note that while the CPU records in the {MPS,ACPI/MADT} table are in
> numerical order (as preserved in raw_phys_apicid), the boot CPU is # 02. The
> flat code in smp_boot_cpus assumes that the boot CPU will be the first record
> in the list. Oops.

Ok i'll give it a whirl, in that case how about the following code to do
the BSP check in another area too?

Index: linux-2.4.19-rc3-ac2/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/zwane/source/cvs_rep/linux-2.4.19-rc3-ac2/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 smpboot.c
--- linux-2.4.19-rc3-ac2/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2002/07/25 06:06:56 1.2
+++ linux-2.4.19-rc3-ac2/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2002/07/25 06:15:05
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <asm/mtrr.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/smpboot.h>
+#include <asm/msr.h>
 
 /* Set if we find a B stepping CPU */
 static int smp_b_stepping;
@@ -229,6 +230,14 @@
         return res;
 }
 
+int smp_cpu_is_bsp (void)
+{
+ unsigned long l, h;
+
+ rdmsr(MSR_IA32_APICBASE, l, h);
+ return (l & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_BSP);
+}
+
 static void __init synchronize_tsc_bp (void)
 {
         int i;
@@ -1067,7 +1076,7 @@
         connect_bsp_APIC();
         setup_local_APIC();
 
- if (GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID)) != boot_cpu_physical_apicid)
+ if (!smp_cpu_is_bsp())
                 BUG();
 
         /*

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