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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:31:46 +0800
From: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: under bios control, restore AP's APIC_LVTTHMR
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:59:57AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> That's true in Linus's tree but Boris Petkov fixed the MCE init 
> functions naming mess in the x86 tree, in these commits:
> 
>  b33a636: x86, mce: Add a global MCE init helper
>  5e09954: x86, mce: Fix up MCE naming nomenclature
> 
> Please base your patch on:
> 
>   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> 
> to have the latest MCE code. So if you stick that init function into 
> mcheck_init() in -tip it should be called once per bootup only. (I have 
> not checked the other boot dependencies, please do that.)
> 

By the time mcheck_init() executes, intel_init_thermal() has finished
running on BSP. Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks for your insights!
-Yong