linux-kernel - Re: [RFC -tip] x86,apic -- reduce disable

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Date:	Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:59:47 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC -tip] x86,apic -- reduce disable_apic usage

[Maciej W. Rozycki - Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:38:52PM +0100]
| On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| 
| > Here is an attempt to bring more consistency for apic
| > presence check. I hope I covered all the code flows.
| > Though it's RFC. Please review and test if possible.
| > 
| > 	-- Cyrill
| > ---
| > Instead of messing with (cpu_has_apic|disable_apic)
| > to check if we have apic functional, better to distinguish
| > them by logical kind. cpu_has_apic -- to check if we may
| > use apic functionality, disable_apic -- to note that
| > apic was disabled via command line.
| 
|  How do you set cpu_has_apic for systems with discrete local APICs?  The 
| CPUID flag is not set in this case.
| 
|   Maciej
| --
| 

Well, indeed, somehow forgot about this case. Thanks Maciej!
The patch should be dropped.

	-- Cyrill
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