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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:57:48 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908251155570.3218@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A943290.5080606@kernel.org>



On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> initial apic id and apic id could be different.
> 
> and we should use initial apic id to get correct phys pkg id in case BIOS set crazy apic id.

Yinghai - I think you missed Cyrills' point.  Let me repeat it:

	"cpu_has_apic bit turned off"

there's no apic. No "initial apic id". No "phys pkg id". No nothing. 

Discussions about "correct phys pkg id" are pointless.

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24 18:26 [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-24 23:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25  0:27   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25  1:38     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25  5:03       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25  1:26   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25  5:12     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 17:17       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 18:15         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 18:31           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-25 18:50             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 18:57               ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-08-25 19:12                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 19:17                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 19:24                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 20:36                       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 20:44                         ` [PATCH] x86: fix vsmp booting with phys_pkg_id changing Yinghai Lu
2009-08-26  8:08                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26  8:15                           ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix vSMP boot crash tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 19:53                   ` [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 18:59               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-25 19:27               ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 19:33                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 19:36                 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 19:20             ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 19:26               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 19:40               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-25 18:35           ` Yinghai Lu

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