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SubjectRe: [patch 06/11] x86: nmi_32/64.c - use apic_write_around instead of apic_write
On Sat, 24 May 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> apic_write_around will be expanded to apic_write in 64bit mode
> anyway. Only a few CPUs (well, old CPUs to be precise) requires
> such an action. In general it should not hurt and could be cleaned
> up for apic_write (just in case)
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>

Almost all local APIC write accesses must use apic_write_around(). The
notable exceptions are appropriately guarded accesses to the ESR (there is
no need ever to write to this register on Pentium processors and a read of
the register has side-effects) and pieces of code known never to run on
original Pentium processors.

Maciej


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