linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/apic] x86: read apic ID in the !acpi

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Message-ID: <20090511200556.GQ4624@lenovo>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 00:05:56 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	eswierk@...stanetworks.com, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/apic] x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case

[Ingo Molnar - Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:01:43PM +0200]
...
| 
| > Thanks Yinghai, looks really attractive!
| > 
| > But would need a good testing (seems we
| > rely on read_apic heavily in smp environment
| > even if it was disabled or not supported).
| > 
| > (btw comment about disable_apic now should
| >  contain apic->read as well or should be dropped
| >  completely since all is selfevidence from code
| >  though this is not that important i believe)
| 
| Needs a delta patch against -tip - i got this stuff stable today but 
| i dont want to replace patches as it has a problematic track record 
| already.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

Yinghai, could you make one? (i'm off for today, seems will
be able tomorrow evening only)

	-- Cyrill
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