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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add apic probe for genapic 64bit v2
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:17:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080722191708.GE14380@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440807221140o20dcc31fjc10f86a22a1125bb@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:40:13AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> could be apic mode is set to phys flat mode by BIOS.
> 
> get
> APIC error (0x40)...

Does this happen while sending IPI's? AP bringup should be same
irrespective of the genapic mode we select here.

> that is the reason for introducing max_phys_apicid.

We may need a workaround if it is some cpu/platform specific issue. But we
need to understand the actual issue and document it properly, so that
it doesn't break in the future.

thanks,
suresh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-22 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-22  1:36 [PATCH] x86: add apic probe for genapic 64bit Yinghai Lu
2008-07-22  5:08 ` [PATCH] x86: add apic probe for genapic 64bit v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-07-22  7:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22  7:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22  8:09       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-22  8:24         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22  8:26           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-22 16:31         ` Mike Travis
2008-07-22 17:57   ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-22 18:05     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-22 18:10       ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-22 18:40         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-22 19:17           ` Suresh Siddha [this message]
2008-07-22 20:20   ` [PATCH] x86: move declaring x2apic_extra_bits Yinghai Lu
2008-07-24 11:00     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-26  2:39   ` [PATCH] x86: add apic probe for genapic 64bit - fix Yinghai Lu
2008-07-26 14:32     ` Ingo Molnar

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