x86, ioapic, acpi: add a knob to disable IRQ 0 through I/O APIC
As discovered recently some systems exhibit problems when the 8254 timer IRQ is routed through the I/O APIC. These problems do not affect the timer IRQ itself and therefore cannot be detected when the correctness of operation of the interrupt is verified in check_timer(). Therefore the I/O APIC path of the timer IRQ has to be disabled entirely. This is a change that lets platforms ask for the timer IRQ not to be registered in the I/O APIC interrupt tables. The local APIC and ExtINTA paths are unaffected. This request is only taken into account for ACPI platforms as MP table systems seem unaffected so far. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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