Re: [PATCH 3/14] kexec: apic-virtwire-on-shutdown.i386.patch

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 14:24:05 EST


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The local apic still needs to be put into virtual wire mode in that
> case.

Well, depending on actual wiring you may need to mask LINT0 in this case
to avoid duplicate interrupts. I think the safest approach would be
remembering the initial values of LVT0 and LVT1 registers of the BSP --
they are just four bytes each, so it would not be a terrible memory waste.

Maciej
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