RE: APIC version

From: Protasevich, Natalie (Natalie.Protasevich@UNISYS.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 18:49:16 EST


If you index it by 4-bit GET_APIC_ID() (not GET_APIC_LOGICAL_ID()), i.e.
hard_smp_processor_id(), you can get away with it.

Of course, it is possible that it can just be "don't care":

>I don't think the array apic_version[] is very helpful in the first place.
>I suspect it can be __init.

>Jun

On the other hand, it might be needed if imagine hot plug CPU case.

--Natalie

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin J. Bligh [mailto:mbligh@aracnet.com]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:23 PM
To: Zwane Mwaikambo; Nakajima, Jun
Cc: Protasevich, Natalie; Pallipadi, Venkatesh; William Lee Irwin III;
Christoph Hellwig; James Cleverdon; Linux Kernel
Subject: RE: APIC version

>> The entries in acpi_version[] are indexed by the APIC id, not
>> smp_processor_id(). So you can overwrite acpi_version[] for a different
>> processor.
>
> Is it possible to use smp_processor_id instead to avoid wasting memory
> for the sparse APIC id case?

No, the array is set up in mpparse.c before we know the real processor
numbers.

M.
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