From: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Make disabled_cpu_apicid static read_mostly, fix typos
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:20:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D77A49.5060905@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D773F7.7000108@zytor.com>
(2014/01/16 14:53), H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/15/2014 08:44 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
>>
>> This is not typo in my intention.
>>
>> generic_processor_info() has two more cases where it ignores cpus.
>> In either cases, printed messages are tagged with "ACPI" because this
>> function is called when parsing ACPI MADT table in acpi_boot_init();
>> this function is also being used to parse other kind of tables but
>> the "ACPI" tag would mean that the function was first for ACPI only.
>>
>
> But it has nothing to do with ACPI -- it is an APIC ID from the command
> line -- so that would be actively misleading.
>
> -hpa
>
I never disagree to the fix itself. I wanted to explain why I wrote so.
I thought it was better to unify tags in the same function because they
should bleong to the same component, here I mean ACPI, but it's better
to avoid the confusion, which is bigger impact.
--
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 6:44 [RESEND PATCH v10] x86, apic, kexec, Documentation: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter HATAYAMA Daisuke
2014-01-15 17:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-15 17:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 17:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-15 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 18:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-15 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-10 17:28 ` Petr Tesarik
2014-01-15 17:57 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic, kexec: " tip-bot for HATAYAMA Daisuke
2014-01-15 18:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-15 21:09 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Make disabled_cpu_apicid static read_mostly, fix typos tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-16 4:44 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2014-01-16 5:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-16 6:20 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke [this message]
2014-01-16 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
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