Re: [patch 00/15] x86/ioapic: Robustness fix and cleanup

From: Qiuxu Zhuo
Date: Sun Aug 04 2024 - 11:17:45 EST


Hi Thomas,

> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx, Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [patch 00/15] x86/ioapic: Robustness fix and cleanup
>
> Breno reported a panic during testing with failslab in the IO-APIC
> code. This is a historical leftover and can be handled gracefully.
>
> While looking at that I stumbled over quite some historical leftovers of
> debug printks, overly big comments for trivialities and a pile of coding
> style violations.
>
> So after fixing the failslab problem I just went through and modernized the
> (IO)APIC code.
>
> The series is also available from git:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git x86/apic
>

Tested this branch on an Intel Sandy Bridge server and an Ice Lake server.
Both servers booted okay and worked well. No regressions were found.
If the testing is sufficient, feel free to add:

Tested-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
-Qiuxu