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* x2APIC and many-APIC systems...
@ 2012-03-13  9:29 Daniel J Blueman
  2012-03-13 22:58 ` Yinghai Lu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 32+ messages in thread
From: Daniel J Blueman @ 2012-03-13  9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Suresh Siddha
  Cc: H. Peter Anvin, Thomas Gleixner, linux-kernel, x86,
	Steffen Persvold, Yinghai Lu

Ingo, Suresh,

Commit a35fd28256e7736cc84af8931a16224f0bfaaf6c prevents x2APIC 
structures being used from the ACPI MADT if the cores don't advertise 
the x2APIC feature. Commit c284b42abadbb22083bfde24d308899c08d44ffa 
prevents onlining cores with APIC ID >255 in non-x2APIC mode. Since 
NumaChip/NumaConnect uses x2APIC structures to describe non-x2APIC 
systems (AMD Opteron) with lots of APICs, we thus now can't boot all the 
cores.

We are able to set the x2APIC bit in the processor feature flags, so get 
caught by the second patch. Is there an appropriate approach to use in 
these circumstances? Otherwise, would a patch that separates the APIC ID 
handover and future x2APIC MSR access be appropriate?

Many thanks,
   Daniel
-- 
Daniel J Blueman
Principal Software Engineer, Numascale Asia

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2012-03-13  9:29 x2APIC and many-APIC systems Daniel J Blueman
2012-03-13 22:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-13 23:16   ` Suresh Siddha
2012-03-14  7:17     ` [PATCH] Move APIC ID validity check into platform APIC code Daniel J Blueman
2012-03-14 11:27       ` [tip:x86/platform] x86/platform: " tip-bot for Daniel J Blueman
2012-03-14 17:58       ` [PATCH] " Yinghai Lu
2012-03-14 20:18         ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-14 23:19           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-15 18:03             ` [PATCH] Use x2apic_supported() in the default_apic_id_valid() function Steffen Persvold
2012-03-15 20:23               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-15 21:21                 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-03-15 22:34                   ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-15 22:58                     ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-15 23:04                     ` Suresh Siddha
2012-03-15 23:17                       ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-15 23:33                       ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-15 23:44                         ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-16  0:07                       ` [PATCH] Added separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers Steffen Persvold
2012-03-16  0:13                         ` Suresh Siddha
2012-03-16  0:57                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-16  6:45                           ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-16  2:08                   ` [PATCH] Use x2apic_supported() in the default_apic_id_valid() function Yinghai Lu
2012-03-16  3:03                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-16  4:19                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-16  6:56                       ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-16 16:57                         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-16 18:01                           ` Suresh Siddha
2012-03-16 19:10                             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-16 19:25                               ` [PATCH REPOST] Added separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers Steffen Persvold
2012-03-20 10:41                                 ` Steffen Persvold
2012-03-20 10:49                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-23 19:45                                 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/apic: Add " tip-bot for Steffen Persvold

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