linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/15] x86/ioapic: Robustness fix and cleanup

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Message-ID: <ZrDNBiUhGIKaq9ng@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 06:00:54 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] x86/ioapic: Robustness fix and cleanup

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 06:15:33PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Breno reported a panic during testing with failslab in the IO-APIC
> code. This is a historical leftover and can be handled gracefully.
> 
> While looking at that I stumbled over quite some historical leftovers of
> debug printks, overly big comments for trivialities and a pile of coding
> style violations.
> 
> So after fixing the failslab problem I just went through and modernized the
> (IO)APIC code.
> 
> The series is also available from git:
> 
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git x86/apic

I've tested these patches on top of linux-next tree (3608d6aca5e7 (" 
Merge branch 'dsa-en7581' into main")) and I do see panics anymore.

Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>