Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't ack_APIC_irq() if lapic is disabled inGENERIC_INTERRUPT_VECTOR handler

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Sep 20 2009 - 14:13:35 EST


[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 08:06:32PM +0200]
|
| * Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| > Otherwise would cause trouble...
| >
| > Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
| > Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > ---
| > arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 3 ++-
| > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
| >
| > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
| > index b0cdde6..78b23d0 100644
| > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
| > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
| > @@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ void smp_generic_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
| > {
| > struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
| >
| > - ack_APIC_irq();
| > + if (!disable_apic)
| > + ack_APIC_irq();
|
| Wont in that case the apic->ack method be a NOP?
|
| Ingo
|

iirc it was Xen related patch. So it's not that simple.

I've pointed out Sheng about disable_apic. I'm not Xen
specialist but Xen team seem to use specific apic setup
so our "dummy" operations are not involved (case they
set disable_apic=1 without "turn off" apic ops in real).
Something like that.

-- Cyrill
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