Re: [PATCH] x86/apic: Remove the extra judgement of skipped IO APIC setup

From: Dou Liyang
Date: Wed Mar 01 2017 - 08:46:11 EST


Dear Ingo,

At 03/01/2017 05:04 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
[...]
+ pr_info("Not init interrupt remapping due to skipped IO-APIC setup\n");

So you replaced a perfectly readable kernel message:

- pr_info("Not enabling interrupt remapping due to skipped IO-APIC setup\n");

... with an unreadable one:

+ pr_info("Not init interrupt remapping due to skipped IO-APIC setup\n");

Why?

I am very sorry.

Because of my weak English skills :) . I am trying to improve my
English ability.


Also, the changelog is pretty much unreadable as well:

As the commit 2e63ad4bd5dd ("x86/apic: Do not init irq remapping
if ioapic is disabled") added the judgement of skipped IO APIC
setup at the beginning of enable_IR_x2apic(). It may be redundant
that we check it again when we try to enable the interrupt mapping.

So, remove the one in try_to_enable_IR() and refine them for
better readability.

I edited it to:

Thanks very much ! it became very clear.


The following commit:

2e63ad4bd5dd ("x86/apic: Do not init irq remapping if ioapic is disabled")

... added a check for skipped IO-APIC setup to enable_IR_x2apic(), but this

Could you tell me what is the meaning of "..." . How to use it?

check is also duplicated in try_to_enable_IR() - and it will never succeed in
calling irq_remapping_enable().

Remove the whole irq_remapping_enable() complication: if the IO-APIC is
disabled we cannot enable IRQ remapping.

And I restored the original pr_info() message as well.

Yes. Thanks!

Sincerely,

Liyang




Thanks,

Ingo