linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: clean up handling of boot_cpu_physical

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:58:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: clean up handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid
 in boot process

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:

> One idea is not to add bios_bsp_physical_apicid, just removing
> assignment to boot_cpu_physical_apicid from MP_processor_info().
> I guess currently no one uses apicid provided by MP table
> since boot_cpu_physical_apicid is finally initialized in
> init_apic_mappings().
> 

Yeah, following generic_processor_info() it looks like it can be dropped.
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