linux-kernel - Re: [patch 21/23] x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init

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Message-ID: <20150116190423.GV18880@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:04:23 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 21/23] x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:22:42PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The UP related setups for local apic are mangled into smp_sanity_check().
> 
> That results in duplicate calls to disable_smp() and makes the code
> hard to follow. Let smp_sanity_check() return dedicated values for the
> various exit reasons and handle them at the call site.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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