Re: [patch 00/26] x64, x2apic/intr-remap: Interrupt-remapping andx2apic support

[Ingo Molnar]

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > > >   http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jul_10_21_43_28_CEST_2008.bad
> > > >
> > > > Ingo, that was my stupid typo. Please apply this patch. BTW, we need
> > > > some more xen64 paravirt fixes in this area. I will look at it as
> > > > soon as possible.
> > >
> > > applied to tip/x86/x2apic - thanks Suresh.
> > 
> > another problem is the redefinition of apic_read(), causing:
> > 
> >  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c: In function âxen_patch':
> >  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:1084: warning: label âpatch_site' defined but not used
> >  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c: At top level:
> >  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:1272: error: expected identifier before â(' token
> >  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:1273: error: expected â}' before â.' token
> > 
> > with this config:
> > 
> >   http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Fri_Jul_11_21_51_18_CEST_2008.bad
> > 
> > the continued spaghetti in all the APIC variants is quite ugly. This
> > should all be handled via a single apic_ops template that should cover
> > the paravirt and native variants as well.
> 
> Ingo, I just posted the fix for this.

applied to tip/x86/x2apic:

  Suresh Siddha (3):
        x2apic: uninline uv_init_apic_ldr()
        x2apic: xen64 paravirt basic apic ops
        x2apic: kernel-parameter documentation for "x2apic_phys"

thanks Suresh.

> To cleanup the code:
> 
> struct pv_apic_ops {
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
> 	/*
> 	* Direct APIC operations, principally for VMI.  Ideally
> 	* these shouldn't be in this interface.
> 	*/
> 	void (*apic_write)(unsigned long reg, u32 v);
> 	void (*apic_write_atomic)(unsigned long reg, u32 v);
> 	u32 (*apic_read)(unsigned long reg);
> 
> Probably we should move the three above routines to basic apic_ops, 
> which just deal with the apic HW accesses and retain the below for 
> pv_apic_ops, which care more than the basic reg accesses. This will be 
> true for both 32/64bits..
> 
>         void (*setup_boot_clock)(void);
>         void (*setup_secondary_clock)(void);
> 
>         void (*startup_ipi_hook)(int phys_apicid,
>                                  unsigned long start_eip,
>                                  unsigned long start_esp);
> #endif
> };
> 
> Unless there is an objection, I will post the fix.

ok. Jeremy, agreed?

	Ingo
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