From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755285AbZBRRYv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:24:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753165AbZBRRYm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:24:42 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:54109 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751697AbZBRRYl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:24:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:23:49 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Suresh Siddha , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , Yinghai Lu , Nick Piggin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Zijlstra , Jens Axboe , Rusty Russell , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Q: smp.c && barriers (Was: [PATCH 1/4] generic-smp: remove single ipi fallback for smp_call_function_many()) Message-ID: <20090218172349.GA14798@elte.hu> References: <20090217214518.GA13189@redhat.com> <20090217223910.GM6761@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090218135212.GB23125@wotan.suse.de> <20090218162116.GC29863@elte.hu> <20090218165808.GA9120@elte.hu> <20090218170517.GA9769@elte.hu> <20090218171048.GA12299@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > ok, it's documented: > > > > Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures > > Software Developer’s Manual > > Volume 3A: > > System Programming Guide, Part 1 > > > > 9.5.3 MSR Access in x2APIC Mode > > Well, mine says > > 9.5.3 Error Handling > > so I guess I need to download a newer version. After all, mine > is "ancient" in being a year old (the February-2008 version) > and not covering x2APIC at all. Mine is 253668.pdf, that's the freshest available: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/manuals/253668.pdf Ingo