linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2 11/38] x86/apic: Use BAD

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Date:   Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:50:16 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@...adcom.com>,
        James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com>,
        Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch v2 11/38] x86/apic: Use BAD_APICID consistently;

On Fri, Jul 28 2023 at 15:36, Sohil Mehta wrote:

> There is an extra semicolon at the end of the patch subject.

Oops

> On 7/28/2023 5:12 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> APIC ID checks compare with BAD_APICID all over the place, but some
>> initializers and some code which fiddles with global data structure use
>> -1[U] instead. That simply cannot work at all.
>> 
>> Fix it up and use BAD_APICID consistenly all over the place.
>> 
>
> s/consistenly/consistently

Indeed.