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.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
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.Dd December 20, 2011
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.Dt APIC 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm apic
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.Nd Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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This driver is a mandatory part of amd64 kernel.
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To compile this driver into i386 kernel,
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place the following line in your
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kernel configuration file:
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.Bd -ragged -offset indent
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.Cd "device apic"
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The following tunable is settable from the
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.Xr loader 8 :
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.Bl -ohang
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.It Va hint.apic. Ns Ar X Ns Va .clock
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controls event timers functionality support.
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Setting to 0, disables it.
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Default value is 1.
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.It Va hint.apic. Ns Ar X Ns Va .disabled
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Set this to 1 to disable APIC support, falling back to the legacy PIC.
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.El
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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There are two components in the Intel APIC system, the local APIC (LAPIC)
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and the I/O APIC.
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There is one local APIC in each CPU in the system.
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There is typically one I/O APIC for each peripheral bus in the system.
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.Pp
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Local APICs manage all external interrupts for a specific processor.
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In addition, they are able to accept and generate inter-processor interrupts
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(IPIs).
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.Pp
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I/O APICs contain a redirection table, which is used to route the interrupts
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they receive from peripheral buses to one or more local APICs.
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.Pp
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Each local APIC includes one 32-bit programmable timer.
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This driver uses them to supply kernel with one event timer named "LAPIC".
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Event timer provided by the driver supports both one-shot an periodic modes.
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Because of local APIC nature it is per-CPU.
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The timer frequency is not reported by the platform and so automatically
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measured by the driver on the first use.
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Depending on CPU model this timer may stop in C3 and deeper CPU sleep states.
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Driver automatically adjusts event timer priority and reports it to prevent
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entering dangerous sleep states when it is used.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr atrtc 4 ,
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.Xr attimer 4 ,
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.Xr eventtimers 4 ,
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.Xr hpet 4
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