> From: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com>
>
> For legacy machines cpu_init_udelay defaults to 10,000.
> For modern machines it is set to 0.
>
> The user should be able to set cpu_init_udelay to
> any value on the cmdline, including 10,000.
> Before this patch, that was seen as "unchanged from default"
> and thus on a modern machine, the user request was ignored
> and the delay was set to 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> index e0c198e..32267cc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ void __inquire_remote_apic(int apicid)
> */
> #define UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT 10000
>
> -static unsigned int init_udelay = UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT;
> +static unsigned int init_udelay = INT_MAX;
>
> static int __init cpu_init_udelay(char *str)
> {
> @@ -522,13 +522,16 @@ early_param("cpu_init_udelay", cpu_init_udelay);
> static void __init smp_quirk_init_udelay(void)
> {
> /* if cmdline changed it from default, leave it alone */
> - if (init_udelay != UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT)
> + if (init_udelay != INT_MAX)
> return;
>
> /* if modern processor, use no delay */
> if (((boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) &&
> (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6)) ||
> ((boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) && (boot_cpu_data.x86
> >= 0xF)))
> init_udelay = 0;
> +
> + /* else, use legacy delay */
> + init_udelay = UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT;
Hi Len,
Is this really what you intended? The else is commented out so if init_udelay
is quirked
to be 0 it will always be reset to UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT. Also init_udelay is
unsigned, so
would UINT_MAX be a better choice?
Shane
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