Re: [patch 08/19] i386: cleanup apic code

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 05:14:36 EST


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 11:04 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > /*
> > * Knob to control our willingness to enable the local APIC.
> > + *
> > + * -1=force-disable, +1=force-enable
>
> mind doing 2 defines for these? Makes things more readable I suspect

Yep.

> > - return maxlvt;
> > + return APIC_INTEGRATED(GET_APIC_VERSION(v)) ? GET_APIC_MAXLVT(v) : 2;
> > }
>
> why not use lapic_is_integrated() here?

oops.

> > \
> > + if (cpu_has_tsc)
> > + apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "..... CPU clock speed is "
>
> please put "approximated at" or something here; or people will call
> supportlines if they bought a 3.4Ghz processor and this shows 3.39999Ghz

:)

> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(switch_APIC_timer_to_ipi);
>
> why is this exported at all? Modules really shouldn't be touching apic
> level details....

This is exported for ACPI to handle the C3 stops lapic hell.

tglx


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