Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.

Yinghai Lu
2010-08-07T01:30:50Z

On 08/06/2010 06:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/06/2010 06:08 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure the above is decipherable. Please provide an incremental
>>> patch with a more detailed description.
>>
>> YH was saying I overoptimized, and it looks like he is right,
>> although there are only one or two machines in existence that
>> are likely to be affected.
>>
>> Untested patch to remove the cleverness below. It it boots all
>> is well.
>>
>
> This makes sense to me. Yinghai, do you have a system that is actually
> affected, and if so, could you test this patch?

no, i don't have those kind of system.

found it when i was preparing more smp_register_lapic_address patcheset.

I suggest we still keep !acpi_lapic checking, that should always right.

Yinghai