linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:57:38 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check

On 3/23/2015 11:32 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:
> 
>> Fix a bug in the oem check function that determines if the system
>> is a UV system and the BIOS is compatible with the kernel's UV apic
>> driver.  This prevents some possibly obscure panics and guards the
>> system against being started on SGI hardware that does not have the
>> required kernel support. [...]
> 
> This would be one patch ...
> 
>> [...]  Also add update for new UV3000 system.
> 
> ... and that's a second patch.

The second one is purely cosmetic.  The same UV HUB is used for
UV2000 and UV3000 so all this is doing is avoiding confusion when
someone thinks the kernel should be supporting UV3000.

> n
>> The first "OEM" check was also optimized to return faster if the
>> system is not an SGI or UV system.
> 
> Looks like this mixes up with the fix and can be part of the first 
> patch - although ideally it would have been good to create a 3 patch 
> series to preserve the separation of the various changes.

If you think that's necessary, then I can do that.  Overall the changes
are very minimal and basically guard against whatever changes will be
in UV4 or possible non-UV SGI systems (using the "SGI" OEM label in BIOS).

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
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