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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-16 16:11:28 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-16 16:11:28 -0800
commit138a6d7ea2deb3080116a4f99019e181b62e5ce5 (patch)
tree424622059405352935fbf1dde015a1e130b56198 /arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
parent4fc6069e7df873bda9baabe0fa9f0be23363159a (diff)
parent319e2e3f63c348a9b66db4667efa73178e18b17d (diff)
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Merge 3.13-rc4 into char-misc-next
We want these fixes in here.
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
index da3c599584a3..c752cb43e52f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -558,6 +558,17 @@ void native_machine_shutdown(void)
{
/* Stop the cpus and apics */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
+ /*
+ * Disabling IO APIC before local APIC is a workaround for
+ * erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family
+ * Specification Update". In this situation, interrupts that target
+ * a Logical Processor whose Local APIC is either in the process of
+ * being hardware disabled or software disabled are neither delivered
+ * nor discarded. When this erratum occurs, the processor may hang.
+ *
+ * Even without the erratum, it still makes sense to quiet IO APIC
+ * before disabling Local APIC.
+ */
disable_IO_APIC();
#endif