linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Added separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:45:41 +0100
From:	Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected
 apic drivers

On 3/16/2012 01:13, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 01:07 +0100, Steffen Persvold wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/srat.c b/arch/x86/mm/srat.c
>> index 1c1c4f4..7efd0c6 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/srat.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/srat.c
>> @@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ acpi_numa_x2apic_affinity_init(struct acpi_srat_x2apic_cpu_affinity *pa)
>>   	if ((pa->flags&  ACPI_SRAT_CPU_ENABLED) == 0)
>>   		return;
>>   	pxm = pa->proximity_domain;
>> -	apic_id = pa->apic_id;
>> -	if (!cpu_has_x2apic&&  (apic_id>= 0xff)) {
>
> not sure why you removed this. Shouldn't this be replaced with
> apic->apic_id_valid() check?
>

Well I removed it in both my patches because Yinghai stated :

 >>>the checking in SRAT could be removed.
 >>>
 >>>Yinghai

a couple of emails ago. I could of course use apic->apic_id_valid() here 
too to avoid parsing the PXM.

Cheers,
-- 
Steffen Persvold, Chief Architect NumaChip
Numascale AS - www.numascale.com
Tel: +47 92 49 25 54 Skype: spersvold
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