On 3/16/2012 00:04, Suresh Siddha wrote:On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:34 +0100, Steffen Persvold wrote:Is my understanding of your suggestion correct that in
x2apic_phys/cluster.c we add the following apic_id_valid() function :
static int x2apic_apic_id_valid(int apicid)
{
return x2apic_mode || (apicid< 255);
}
Steffen, We can have something like:
static int x2apic_apic_id_valid(int apicid)
{
return 1;
}
and
static int xapic_apic_id_valid(int apicid)
{
return apicid< 255;
}
If we have selected x2apic driver, then we know we are already in x2apic
mode. And also x2apic_uv_x need to use the x2apic version above.
If you specify "nox2apic" option, will it choose the xapic driver
instead (and early enough) ? Otherwise I think we might break Yinghai's
commit (a35fd28256e7736cc84af8931a16224f0bfaaf6c).