linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386/bigsmp: eliminate false warnings regarding logical APIC ID mismatches

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Message-ID: <20110818130424.GC20085@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:04:24 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386/bigsmp: eliminate false warnings regarding logical
 APIC ID mismatches

Hello, Jan.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:54:44PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Fix this (for the time being, i.e. until x86_32_early_logical_apicid()
> will get removed again, as Tehun says ought to be possible) by
> overriding the previously stored values at the point where the APIC
> driver gets overridden.

Hmmm... how about just removing the WARN_ON() in setup_local_APIC()?
We already don't depend on the value so just overriding it isn't
dangerous at all.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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