x86/apic: Read Error Status Register correctly
Currently we do a read, a dummy write and a final read to fetch the error code. The value from the final read is taken. This is not the recommended way and leads to corrupted/lost ESR values. Intel(c) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Combined Volumes 1, 2ABC, 3ABC, Section 10.5.3 states: Before attempt to read from the ESR, software should first write to it. (The value written does not affect the values read subsequently; only zero may be written in x2APIC mode.) This write clears any previously logged errors and updates the ESR with any errors detected since the last write to the ESR. This write also rearms the APIC error interrupt triggering mechanism. This patch removes the first read such that we are conform with the manual. On my (very old) Pentium MMX SMP system this patch fixes the issue that APIC errors: a) are not always reported and b) are reported with false error numbers. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com Cc: rientjes@google.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389685487-20872-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.atSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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