linux-kernel - [PATCH -tip] x86: mce intel -- don't touch THERMAL_APIC

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:26:33 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@...aau.dk>
Subject: [PATCH -tip] x86: mce intel -- don't touch THERMAL_APIC_VECTOR if
	no active APIC present

If APIC was disabled (for some reason) and as result
it's not even mapped we should not try to enable thermal
interrupts at all.

Reported-by: Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@...aau.dk>
Tested-by: Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@...aau.dk>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
@@ -21,9 +21,15 @@ void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x
 	int tm2 = 0;
 	u32 l, h;
 
-	/* Thermal monitoring depends on ACPI and clock modulation*/
-	if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ACPI) || !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ACC))
+	/*
+	 * Thermal monitoring depends on ACPI, clock modulation
+	 * and APIC as well
+	 */
+	if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ACPI) || !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ACC) ||
+		!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_APIC)) {
+		pr_debug("Thermal monitoring disabled\n");
 		return;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * First check if its enabled already, in which case there might

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