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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david.woodhouse@intel.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	hpa@zytor.com, hpa@linux.intel.com, allen.m.kay@intel.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, rajesh.sankaran@intel.com,
	asit.k.mallick@intel.com, kent.liu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, vt-d: enable x2apic opt out
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:18:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17321.1306210686@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 May 2011 11:36:14 EDT." <20110524153614.GA19080@linux-youquan.bj.intel.com>

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On Tue, 24 May 2011 11:36:14 EDT, Youquan Song said:
> > If we're doing a WARN level here, what are the downsides of just automagically
> > forcing it rather than making them use a kernel parameter and reboot?  
> 
> As we have discussed before, x2apci opt out feature is requested from OEM that
> they want to firmware tell OS to opt out x2apic when the platform,
> hardware or BIOS is not ready to support x2apic. So we can not reboot or
> force to use kernel parameter.  

Do we want an actual WARN there, complete with stack traceback and all?

Or did you intend a pr_warn or printk(KERN_WARNING or similar?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 14:32 [PATCH v3] x86, vt-d: enable x2apic opt out Youquan Song
2011-05-24  2:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-24 15:36   ` Youquan Song
2011-05-24  4:18     ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2011-05-24  7:38       ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-24 12:13         ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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