i386/104678: SMP not working on Turion XP Laptop

Ariff Abdullah ariff at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 22 16:30:10 UTC 2007


The following reply was made to PR i386/104678; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org>
To: danolson at visi.com
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, bde at zeta.org.au, infofarmer at FreeBSD.org,
 rainer.alves at gmail.com, kpitcher at KeithPitcher.com
Subject: Re: i386/104678: SMP not working on Turion XP Laptop
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:22:50 +0800

 On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:50:10 GMT
 Dan Olson <danolson at visi.com> wrote:
 >  > Rainer Alves <rainer.alves at gmail.com> wrote:
 >  >>  
 >  >>  I've been using your idle_cpu_* patches for about 6 months and 
 >  >>  experienced some minor gliches (system would panic/hang once in
 >  >a >  while). Your new patch seems a lot simpler, and is working
 >  >>  perfectly here so far. Thanks!
 >  >>  
 >  > 
 >  > This one should become the final patch (if nobody complains about
 >  > it). More thorough check on processor models/revisions especially
 >  > for possible future production. Please backout previous patches
 >  > first before applying this one.
 >  > 
 >  
 >  This patch works for me.
 >  
 
 Just a final note. Since the interrupt pending message register is
 local to each cpu / core, I had to move the fixup deep into
 lapic_setup() routine though it works with just single cpu / core
 fixup. Better safe than sorry.
 
   http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/k8_c1e.diff
 
 
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