Re: [PATCH] x86: read apic id if it is not acpi_lapic -v2

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Ingo Molnar - Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:26:55AM +0200]
| 
| * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 
| > @@ -1590,21 +1591,32 @@ void __init init_apic_mappings(void)
| >  	} else
| >  		apic_phys = mp_lapic_addr;
| >  
| > -	set_fixmap_nocache(FIX_APIC_BASE, apic_phys);
| > +	/* lets check if we may to NOP'ify apic operations */
| > +	if (!cpu_has_apic) {
| > +		pr_info("APIC: disable apic facility\n");
| > +		apic_disable();
| > +		return;
| > +	}
| > +
| > +	/*
| > +	 * acpi lapic path already map that address in
| > +	 * acpi_register_lapic_address()
| > +	 */
| >  	apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "mapped APIC to %08lx (%08lx)\n",
| >  				APIC_BASE, apic_phys);
| > +	if (acpi_lapic)
| > +		return;
| 
| why do we return here? We should sanity-check the APIC ID even if we 
| come from ACPI.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

I believe we already have it checked in acpi_register_lapic_address
so no need to do it twice. Or I miss something?

	-- Cyrill
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