[PATCH v1 2/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Oct 22 16:33:01 EDT 2012
On 10/22/2012 01:31 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> IIRC Fenghua experimented with that and it didn't work. Not all BIOSes
>> use that bit to determine BSP-ness.
>
> What does a BIOS have to do with anything?
>
> The practical issue here is does an INIT IPI cause the cpu to go into
> startup-ipi-wait or to start booting at 4G-16 bytes.
>
> For dealing with BIOSen we may still need to use the bootstrap processor
> for firmware calls, cpu suspend, and other firmware weirdness, but that
> should all be completely orthogonal to the behavior to what happens
> when an INIT IPI is sent to the cpu.
>
> The only firmware problem I can imagine having is cpu virtualization
> bug.
>
The whole problem is that some BIOSes go wonky after receiving an INIT
(as in INIT-SIPI-SIPI) to the BSP.
-hpa
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