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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just becaus

To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because there's no local APIC
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:01:16 -0700
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On 06/12/09 13:11, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
just for the record -- this removement has a side effect.
Imagine I've passed "disableapic" so I expect as many as
possible apic-related code would not pass thru execution.
Now we would have (say for IBM Summit)

acpi_parse_madt
   default_acpi_madt_oem_check
     summit_acpi_madt_oem_check
       mark_tsc_unstable
       setup_summit

Dunno if it harmless or no but it changes kernel behaviour.
cpu_has_apic cleared if disableapic option (which is early
param) passed to kernel.

Just a note. Didn't walk thru all ways.

Yeah, that occured to me over the weekend. Some of those cpu_has_apic tests should probably be replaced with explicit tests to see if noapic was specified. I'll go over it with that in mind.

Thanks,
    J

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