Re: [PATCH] x86_64: clear IO_APIC before enabing apic error vector. v2

[Yinghai Lu]

On Dec 30, 2007 3:23 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:42:41PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Dec 30, 2007 2:06 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > > On Dec 30, 2007 6:51 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > * Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > please check if you can replace the one in the x86-mm
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffcbdc220a1520d006a837f33589c7c19ffbeb76
> > > > > >
> > > > > > the updated one avoid one link warning.
> > > > >
> > > > > please send delta patches instead - so that we can review the changes.
> > > >
> > > > will do that in another patch.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > this is the updated verison that take enable_IO_APIC as extra call for
> > > > > > setup_local_APIC to avoid linking warning.
> > > > >
> > > > > hm, what link warning did you get? Perhaps the following __cpuinit:
> > > >
> > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x163d5): Section mismatch: reference to
> > > > .init.text:enable_IO_APIC (between 'setup_local_APIC' and
> > > > 'apic_is_clustered_box')
> > >
> > > So you are doing complicated things for silencing the warning (there is
> > > an easier ways for achieving it), but the real bug that you will get an
> > > Oops when calling enable_IO_APIC() after bootup since it already got
> > > freed stays?
> >
> > the enable_IO_APIC is actually doing clear_IO_APIC. and it is only
> > called by BSP via setup_local_APIC
> > and it is not called again after bootup
>
> OK, this was a bit hidden inside your pointer games.
>
> Please send a patch that ignores the warning (and therefore doesn't do
> these pointer games), and I'll fix the warning in a followup patch.

the old one is in x86-mm tree

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffcbdc220a1520d006a837f33589c7c19ffbeb76

function call delta
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/30/211

thanks

YH
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