Re: [patch 1/2] x86,mcheck: Thermal monitoring depends on APICbeing enabled

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:53:17PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Add check if APIC is not disabled since thermal
> monitoring depends on it. As only apic gets disabled
> we should not try to install "thermal monitor" vector,
> print out that thermal monitoring is enabled and etc...
> 
> Note that "Intel Correct Machine Check Interrupts" already
> has such a check as well.
> 
> Also I decided to not add cpu_has_apic check into mcheck_intel_therm_init
> since even if it'll call apic_read on disabled apic -- it's safe
> here and allow us to save a few code bytes.
> 
> Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Though the second patch is not for merging (i'm working on it) --
this one is still valid.
 
	-- Cyrill
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