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SubjectRe: oops in ioapic_write_entry

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> This patch definitely does not solve Dave Airlie's problem. That was
> clearly caused by a (ACPI being disabled compared to the test case) and a
> bad BIOS provided MP table with an invalid apic_id, and our attempt to
> lookup the ioapic and failed.

The kernel should not crash obviously, so that's a bug that has to be
addressed - or failing any timely resolution the original patch which
introduced the regression [if it's a regression] needs to be reverted.

Thanks,

Ingo


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