Re: [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:03:04PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> I believe this patch suffers from apicid versus logical cpu number confusion.
>> I copied the basic logic from smp_send_reschedule and I can't find where
>> that translates from the logical cpuid to apicid.  So it isn't quite
>> correct yet.  It should be close enough that it shouldn't be too hard
>> to finish it up.
>> 
>> More bug fixes after I have slept but I figured I needed to get this
>> one out for review.
>
> Thanks looks good. This should fix the unexplained
> hang for various people. Logical<->apicid  is actually ok, the low
> level _mask function takes care of that (it differs depending on the 
> APIC mode anyways) 

I guess my confusion comes from looking at the code in flat_send_IPI_mask.
cpus_addr(mask)[0] reduces it to just the first word but I don't
see any translation being done.

Eric
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