[patch 2/3] x86,apic -- use apic noop driver

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

In case if apic were disabled we may use the whole apic
NOOP driver instead of sparse poking the some functions
in apic driver. Also NOOP would catch any inappropriate
apic operation calls (not just read/write).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c |   22 +++-------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -241,28 +241,12 @@ static int modern_apic(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * bare function to substitute write operation
- * and it's _that_ fast :)
- */
-static void native_apic_write_dummy(u32 reg, u32 v)
-{
-	WARN_ON_ONCE((cpu_has_apic || !disable_apic));
-}
-
-static u32 native_apic_read_dummy(u32 reg)
-{
-	WARN_ON_ONCE((cpu_has_apic && !disable_apic));
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * right after this call apic->write/read doesn't do anything
- * note that there is no restore operation it works one way
+ * right after this call apic become NOOP driven
+ * so apic->write/read doesn't do anything
  */
 void apic_disable(void)
 {
-	apic->read = native_apic_read_dummy;
-	apic->write = native_apic_write_dummy;
+	apic = &apic_noop;
 }
 
 void native_apic_wait_icr_idle(void)

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