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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: avoid early crash in disable_local_APIC()
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:09:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116130936.GL5421@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497051E7.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>


* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 15.01.09 23:47 >>>
> >
> >* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> >> hm, this gives a build failure on latest -tip:
> >> 
> >> arch/x86/kernel/apic.c: In function 'setup_local_APIC':
> >> arch/x86/kernel/apic.c:1135: error: implicit declaration of function 'disable_ioapic_setup'
> 
> Is this with a config that has X86_IO_APIC off (i.e. one the practical 
> use of which I never understood, and hence easily forget to consider)? 
> Otherwise I can't see how that could happen.

yeah. Such build failures are reminders to define such functions in a 
.config-invariant way: i.e. an extern prototype plus an inline NOP-wrapper 
for the !IO_APIC case.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 12:28 [PATCH] x86: avoid early crash in disable_local_APIC() Jan Beulich
2009-01-15 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 22:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 22:47     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16  8:22       ` Jan Beulich
2009-01-16 13:09         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-16 21:26         ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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