x86: fix APIC related bootup crash on Athlon XP CPUs

warmbloodedcreature@gmail.com reported that an APIC-enabled
Asus a7v8x-x with an Athlon XP reboots early in the bootup:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8723

after a long marathon of spontaneous-reboot debugging, it turns
out to be caused by sync_Arb_ids(). AMD CPUs never really needed
this sequence anyway, so just return early if we meet an AMD CPU.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
index 08b07c1..96986b4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ void __init sync_Arb_IDs(void)
         * Unsupported on P4 - see Intel Dev. Manual Vol. 3, Ch. 8.6.1 And not
         * needed on AMD.
         */
-       if (modern_apic())
+       if (modern_apic() || boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD)
                return;
        /*
         * Wait for idle.