Re: [PATCH] x86, UV: Fix nacros for multiple coherency domains

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jun 08 2009 - 12:03:41 EST



* Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix bug in the SGI UV macros that support systems with multiple
> coherency domains. The macros used for referencing global MMR
> (chipset registers) are failing to correctly "or" the NASID (node
> identifier) bits that reside above M+N. These high bits are
> supplied automatically by the chipset for memory accesses coming
> from the processor socket. However, the bits must be present for
> references to the special global MMR space used to map chipset
> registers. (See uv_hub.h for more details ...)
>
> The bug results in references to invalid/incorrect nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv_hub.h | 6 ++++--
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c | 15 +++++++++------
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks Jack. Note - this has missed .30 but i marked it for
.30.1 backporting, because it obviously only affects UV code.

Ingo
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