From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.15] x86/boot: Drop 'noapic' suggestion from check_timer()
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:27:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6518de-2d6e-748c-d7fb-07f355417277@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24594.53440.970539.475825@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 28/01/2021 14:57, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.15] x86/boot: Drop 'noapic' suggestion from check_timer()"):
>> On 27.01.2021 20:49, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> In practice, there is no such thing as a real 64bit system without
>>> APICs. (PVH style virtual environments, sure, but they don't end up here).
>>>
>>> The suggestion to try and use noapic only makes a bad situation worse.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
>> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Thanks.
> Not sure if this is a bugfix but it is a change to a message so fine.
It was one of many delaying factors with the "Xen doesn't boot on modern
Intel client CPUs".
~Andrew
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-27 19:49 [PATCH for-4.15] x86/boot: Drop 'noapic' suggestion from check_timer() Andrew Cooper
2021-01-28 10:16 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-28 14:57 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-28 15:27 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
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