Unfortunately I do not have the McKinley data yet, the NDA is worse
than the Itanium one. Fill in later when the data is available, I
expect more McKinley steppings to be added to the list.
>> +CONFIG_IA64_DEBUG_CMPXCHG
>> + Selecting this option turns on bug checking for the IA64
>> + compare-and-exchange instructions. This is slow! If you're unsure,
>> + select N.
>
>These would be much improved by some indication of what IA64 variants or mask
>steppings have these problems.
Early ones for compare-and-exchange. AFAIK no recent (Itanium B3 or
later) cpu has these problems.
>> +IA64 IRQ bug checking
>> +CONFIG_IA64_DEBUG_IRQ
>> + Selecting this option turns on bug checking for the IA64 irq_save and
>> + restore instructions. This is slow! If you're unsure, select N.
This is software, not hardware, debugging. It saves addresses to help
track down spinlock problems.
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