linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add Numachip APIC support

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Date:	Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:35:33 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add Numachip APIC support


* Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com> wrote:

> From: Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>
> 
> From: Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>

Please fix these duplicate lines.

> Add support for Numascale's NumaChip APIC mapping mechanism to allow
> booting more than ~168 cores.
> 
> v2:
>  - [Steffen] enumerate only accessible northbridges
>  - [Daniel] rediffed and validated against 3.1-rc10
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com>

> +/*
> + * Set up the logical destination ID.
> + *
> + * Intel recommends to set DFR, LDR and TPR before enabling
> + * an APIC. See e.g. "AP-388 82489DX User's Manual" (Intel
> + * document number 292116).
> + */
> +static void numachip_init_apic_ldr(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long val;
> +	unsigned long num, id;
> +
> +	num = smp_processor_id();
> +	id = 1UL << num;
> +	apic_write(APIC_DFR, APIC_DFR_FLAT);
> +	val = apic_read(APIC_LDR) & ~APIC_LDR_MASK;
> +	val |= SET_APIC_LOGICAL_ID(id);
> +	apic_write(APIC_LDR, val);
> +}

Looks like a flat out copy of arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c's 
flat_init_apic_ldr(). Please make that function global instead of 
copying it.

Also, when you copy another file to derive your new code from you 
*MUST* refer in your copyright notices to the code you copied from.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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