[GIT PULL] x86/hyperv fix for v3.15-rc1

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 11 2014 - 13:40:02 EST


Hi Linus,

A single fix for HyperV -- we never NEED the legacy PIC on HyperV, and
in kexec/kdump scenarios we don't always know that we originally
booted EFI. The right answer is probably to augment the legacy PIC
initialization code to detect a not-present PIC, but that is way too
high risk for right now.

The following changes since commit ca3ba2a2f4a49a308e7d78c784d51b2332064f15:

x86, hyperv: Bypass the timer_irq_works() check (2014-03-27 11:02:45 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-hyperv-for-linus

for you to fetch changes up to 8df28b82ff0649dd293f0469b97792cfb9ed10ab:

x86, hyperv: When on Hyper-v use NULL legacy PIC (2014-04-03 22:00:13 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
K. Y. Srinivasan (1):
x86, hyperv: When on Hyper-v use NULL legacy PIC

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
index 832d05a914ba..b7d82c7e1257 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
@@ -93,14 +93,8 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "HyperV: LAPIC Timer Frequency: %#x\n",
lapic_timer_frequency);

- /*
- * On Hyper-V, when we are booting off an EFI firmware stack,
- * we do not have many legacy devices including PIC, PIT etc.
- */
- if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT)) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "HyperV: Using null_legacy_pic\n");
- legacy_pic = &null_legacy_pic;
- }
+ printk(KERN_INFO "HyperV: Using null_legacy_pic\n");
+ legacy_pic = &null_legacy_pic;
}
#endif

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