This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> --- .../x86/i386/{IO-APIC.txt => IO-APIC.rst} | 26 ++++++++++++------- Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst | 10 +++++++ Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 + 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) rename Documentation/x86/i386/{IO-APIC.txt => IO-APIC.rst} (93%) create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst similarity index 93% rename from Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt rename to Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst index 15f5baf7e1b6..aec98f742763 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======= +IO-APIC +======= + +:Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> + Most (all) Intel-MP compliant SMP boards have the so-called 'IO-APIC', which is an enhanced interrupt controller. It enables us to route hardware interrupts to multiple CPUs, or to CPU groups. Without an @@ -13,7 +21,7 @@ usually worked around by the kernel. If your MP-compliant SMP board does not boot Linux, then consult the linux-smp mailing list archives first. If your box boots fine with enabled IO-APIC IRQs, then your -/proc/interrupts will look like this one: +/proc/interrupts will look like this one:: ----------------------------> hell:~> cat /proc/interrupts @@ -37,14 +45,14 @@ none of those IRQ sources is performance-critical. In the unlikely case that your board does not create a working mp-table, you can use the pirq= boot parameter to 'hand-construct' IRQ entries. This is non-trivial though and cannot be automated. One sample /etc/lilo.conf -entry: +entry:: append="pirq=15,11,10" The actual numbers depend on your system, on your PCI cards and on their PCI slot position. Usually PCI slots are 'daisy chained' before they are connected to the PCI chipset IRQ routing facility (the incoming PIRQ1-4 -lines): +lines):: ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-. PIRQ4 ----| |-. ,-| |-. ,-| |-. ,-| |--------| | @@ -56,7 +64,7 @@ lines): PIRQ1 ----| |- `----| |- `----| |- `----| |--------| | `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' -Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD: +Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD:: ,-. INTD--| | @@ -78,19 +86,19 @@ to have non shared interrupts). Slot5 should be used for videocards, they do not use interrupts normally, thus they are not daisy chained either. so if you have your SCSI card (IRQ11) in Slot1, Tulip card (IRQ9) in -Slot2, then you'll have to specify this pirq= line: +Slot2, then you'll have to specify this pirq= line:: append="pirq=11,9" the following script tries to figure out such a default pirq= line from -your PCI configuration: +your PCI configuration:: echo -n pirq=; echo `scanpci | grep T_L | cut -c56-` | sed 's/ /,/g' note that this script won't work if you have skipped a few slots or if your board does not do default daisy-chaining. (or the IO-APIC has the PIRQ pins connected in some strange way). E.g. if in the above case you have your SCSI -card (IRQ11) in Slot3, and have Slot1 empty: +card (IRQ11) in Slot3, and have Slot1 empty:: append="pirq=0,9,11" @@ -105,7 +113,7 @@ won't function properly (e.g. if it's inserted as a module). If you have 2 PCI buses, then you can use up to 8 pirq values, although such boards tend to have a good configuration. -Be prepared that it might happen that you need some strange pirq line: +Be prepared that it might happen that you need some strange pirq line:: append="pirq=0,0,0,0,0,0,9,11" @@ -115,5 +123,3 @@ Good luck and mail to linux-smp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you have any problems that are not covered by this document. --- mingo - diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8747cf5bbd49 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +i386 Support +============ + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + IO-APIC diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index 526f7a008b8e..19323c5b89ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ Linux x86 Support microcode resctrl_ui usb-legacy-support + i386/index -- 2.20.1