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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: let 32bit use apic_ops too - fix
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:51 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:38:50AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>> >
>> > Nacked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
>> >
>> > What are you doing here and why aren't you cc-ing the maintainers?
>>
>> Sorry. I was about to bring you into the loop.
>>
>> Yinghai posted 32bit native apic_ops(similar to my 64bit apic ops patch, which
>> is different from pv_apic_ops) which is in tip/x86/x2apic and proposed a fix
>> for VMI case aswell.
>>
>> Based on my understanding, tip/x86/x2apic git commit
>> 94a8c3c2437c8946f1b6c8e0b2c560a7db8ed3c6 is wrong and it should be fixed with
>> something like
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121614328831237&w=2
>
> Looks better, but I need to read more context to find out where the
> apic_ops variable comes from; I'll read the list for patches.
>
> You are correct in that we will want to use the same wait_icr_idle
> routine as native hardware; it's not clear from just this patch how that
> happens.
>
> Also, the VMI operations are sensitive to parameter order because they
> interface with an ABI at the other end. I need to check the parameter
> order for apic read / write is still consistent with the ABI.

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt

mkdir linux-2.6
cd linux-2.6

git init

git remote add linus
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

git remote add tip
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git

git remote update

git checkout -b tip-latest tip/master

git merge tip/x86/x2apic

YH


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