linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86 apic: Ack all pending irqs when crashed/on kexec

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Message-Id: <201003081226.34583.trenn@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:26:34 +0100
From:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Kerstin Jonsson <kerstin.jonsson@...csson.com>, jbohac@...ell.com,
	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, "Avi Kivity" <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 apic: Ack all pending irqs when crashed/on kexec

On Monday 08 March 2010 12:17:10 Thomas Renninger wrote:
> From: Kerstin Jonsson <kerstin.jonsson@...csson.com>
> 
> When the SMP kernel decides to crash_kexec() the local APICs may have
> pending interrupts in their vector tables.
...
Sorry, indentation is totally messed up, I resend another version
which is "checkpatch'ed"
If this is an acceptable approach, it would be great if Kerstin
could try out and test the "break out after 1 sec" condition and
whether all still works as expected...

Thanks,

  Thomas
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