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Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 19:42:52 -0500
From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
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On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we
>>> install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform quirk instead,
>>> and activate it for all CPUs/systems that we think might need it, with
>>> a sufficiently robust and future-proof quirk cutoff condition.
>>>
>>> New systems won't have the quirk active and thus won't have to have
>>> this delay configurable either.
>> Okay, at this time, I think the quirk would apply to:
>>
>> 1. Intel family 5 (original pentium) -- some may actually need the quirk
>> 2. Intel family F (pentium4) -- mostly b/c I don't want to bother
>> finding/testing p4
>> 3. All AMD (happy to narrow down, if somebody can speak for AMD)
> Aravind and I could probably test on a couple of AMD boxes to narrow down.
>
> @Aravind, see here:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d69aab88c14d65ae1e7be55050d1b689b59b4b.1429402494.git.len.brown@intel.com
>
> You could ask around whether a timeout is needed between the assertion
> and deassertion of INIT done by the BSP when booting other cores.

Sure, I'll ask around and try mdelay(0) on some systems as well.
I can gather Fam15h, Fam16h but don't have K8's or older.

Will let you know how it goes.

-Aravind.

> If not, we probably should convert, at least modern AMD machines, to the
> no-delay default.
>

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