Re: [rfc 0/4] x86 - apic dummy ops with cleanups

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:24:31PM +0200]
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| * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
| 
| > Hi,
| > 
| > here is a series of patches with some tiny
| > cleanup and one bugfix I believe (and most
| > probably why fixing one issue new one could
| > be introduced as well :-)
| > 
| > Please review and test if possible. _Any_ kind
| > of feedback is highly appreciated!
| 
| This series looks very good and is well-structured,
| i've applied it to tip:x86/apic and started testing
| it, thanks Cyrill!
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

Thanks, Ingo!

Actually I found one a bit suspicious thing (not sure if it was
initially designed to  behave like that).

Suppose we have SMP compiled kernel and even supported on HW
level but then we disable apic thru kernel option. And then
when system startup it should be working fine since we go
to uniprocessor mode. Then the machine going for reboot and we have:

Starting from arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c

native_machine_shutdown
	smp_send_stop
		smp_ops.smp_send_stop
			native_smp_send_stop
				disable_local_APIC
					apic_write(APIC_SPIV, value);

Since we have reserved APIC memory mapped area (in _anycase_)
it doesn't cause any problems but was it initially supposed?

Most probably I miss something.

        Cyrill