linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: let 32bit use apic_ops too

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:27:39 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: let 32bit use apic_ops too - fix

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:10:37AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Suresh Siddha
> <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com> wrote:
> > Yinghai, Looking more closely at this, based on my understanding this might be
> > wrong for VMI. Correct patch should be as follows. Any comments?
> 
> so you mean icr related will still use default native member?

Yes. This is similar to pre apic_ops.

I think VMI uses apic operations in the paravirt case. For example,
please refer to vmi_time_bsp_init/vmi_time_ap_init.

thanks,
suresh
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