linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because there's no local APIC

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Message-ID: <4A329F8D.70906@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:33:49 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because there's
 no local APIC

On 06/12/09 11:28, Alan Cox wrote:
>> +		if (error == -EINVAL) {
>> +			/*
>> +			 * The ACPI tables themselves were malformed.
>> +			 * Dell Precision Workstation 410, 610 come here.
>> +			 */
>> +			printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
>> +			       "Invalid BIOS MADT, disabling ACPI\n");
>> +			disable_acpi();
>> +		} else {
>>      
>
> This seems a very bad model. On todays systems turning off ACPI renders
> them basically useless. If the MADT is bogus its far better to pray that
> they rest of the ACPI is mostly sound and continue by ignoring the only
> dodgy table.
>    

I didn't make any change there; I just preserved the original behaviour 
of stopping all ACPI parsing when it returned -EINVAL (with a slightly 
more helpful comment).  My change was to make it continue to the I/O 
APICs if it returned something else (ie, -ENODEV).

     J
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