@@ -120,9 +120,6 @@ extern int mp_irq_entries;
/* MP IRQ source entries */
extern struct mpc_intsrc mp_irqs[MAX_IRQ_SOURCES];
-/* Older SiS APIC requires we rewrite the index register */
-extern int sis_apic_bug;
-
/* 1 if "noapic" boot option passed */
extern int skip_ioapic_setup;
@@ -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
- * loss 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 @@ void __init setup_IO_APIC(void)
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;
@@ -819,13 +819,6 @@ static void quirk_amd_ioapic(struct pci_dev *dev)
}
}
DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_VIPER_7410, quirk_amd_ioapic);
-
-static void quirk_ioapic_rmw(struct pci_dev *dev)
-{
- if (dev->devfn == 0 && dev->bus->number == 0)
- sis_apic_bug = 1;
-}
-DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, PCI_ANY_ID, quirk_ioapic_rmw);
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC */
/*