[patch 00/23] x86: Cleanup apic/ioapic/x2apic setup code

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jan 15 2015 - 16:22:34 EST


While reviewing Jiangs interrupt remapping patch set, I had several
serious WTF moments when trying to understand what that code is doing.

The main issues I've seen are:

- Blindly copy and pasted code

- Random places which initialize bits and pieces

- Code which got mindlessly expanded with duct tape and glue
without considering readability and maintainability.

- Missing inline stubs which result in a ifdef nightmare

- Superflous inline stubs to artificially avoid sensible ifdefs

The deeper I looked the more I started to get grumpy about that maze
and finally sat down and cleaned it up seriously. One bug I fixed on
the way (surprise, surprise) got folded into Jiangs series which is
now in tip/x86/apic. The other one is not that crucial and cant be
fixed in the previous code without adding more mess.

The following patch series applies on top of tip/x86/apic. It cleans
up and consolidates the apic/ioapic/x2apic setup functions.

Please give it a proper review and testing.

Thanks,

tglx
---
arch/x86/include/asm/smpboot_hooks.h | 68 ------
tip/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 57 +----
tip/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h | 5
tip/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 395 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
tip/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 13 -
tip/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2
tip/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 113 +++++-----
tip/init/main.c | 14 -
8 files changed, 308 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)

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