Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/apic: Update the comment for apic_id_mask

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Thu Jul 07 2016 - 11:39:47 EST


On 07/07/2016 11:25 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 11:28:18AM +0800, Wei Jiangang wrote:
>> verify_local_APIC() had been removed by
>> commit 4399c03c6780 ("x86/apic: Remove verify_local_APIC()"),
>> so apic_id_mask isn't used by it.

Is anyone actually using this field? It looks like 4399c03c6780 removed
the only user.

-boris


> CC-ing the proper maintainers.
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Jiangang <weijg.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/xen/apic.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/apic.c b/arch/x86/xen/apic.c
>> index db52a7fafcc2..9cbb1f48381b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/apic.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/apic.c
>> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static struct apic xen_pv_apic = {
>>
>> .get_apic_id = xen_get_apic_id,
>> .set_apic_id = xen_set_apic_id, /* Can be NULL on 32-bit. */
>> - .apic_id_mask = 0xFF << 24, /* Used by verify_local_APIC. Match with what xen_get_apic_id does. */
>> + .apic_id_mask = 0xFF << 24, /* Match with what xen_get_apic_id does. */
>>
>> .cpu_mask_to_apicid_and = flat_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and,
>>
>> --
>> 1.9.3
>>
>>
>>
>>
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