Re: [PATCH] x86 apic: Ack all pending irqs when crashed/on kexec- V5

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/16/2010 02:11 PM, Pan, Jacob jun wrote:
> 
> W.R.T. the loop limits, is it possible to use a default max_loops value in
> case when cpu_khz is not set? The reason is that on Moorestown platform
> we need to do an early APIC setup before tsc_init(), so cpu_khz is 0 at the
> time we setup local APIC. The result is that we hit WARN_ON(max_loops<= 0)
> on Moorestown for early APIC setup.
> 
> The early APIC setup is needed because Moorestown does not have a PIT and the
> system timer interrupts are routed via IOAPIC.
> 

Can't MRST install a quick ballpark value into cpu_khz?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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