From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A77C433EF for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81A58615E2 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:10:07 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 81A58615E2 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=srcf.net Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.xenproject.org Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.226266.390938 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mmxHP-0000EC-J9; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:39 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 226266.390938; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:39 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mmxHP-0000E5-Fg; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:39 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 226266; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:38 +0000 Received: from se1-gles-sth1-in.inumbo.com ([159.253.27.254] helo=se1-gles-sth1.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mmxHO-0000Dy-AY for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:38 +0000 Received: from ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.133]) by se1-gles-sth1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 0fff80e1-46d6-11ec-9787-a32c541c8605; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:09:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from hades.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.67]:47120) by ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.137]:25) with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) id 1mmxHK-000N0E-hc (Exim 4.95) (return-path ); Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:34 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (host-92-12-61-86.as13285.net [92.12.61.86]) (Authenticated sender: amc96) by hades.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DA791FAC8; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:34 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: 0fff80e1-46d6-11ec-9787-a32c541c8605 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/email-scanner-virus Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:09:33 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.0 Content-Language: en-GB To: Jan Beulich , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" Cc: Andrew Cooper , Wei Liu , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= References: From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] x86: ACPI / APIC / IOMMU interaction In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/11/2021 12:30, Jan Beulich wrote: > While reworking patch 1 (the only one here that I consider a candidate > for 4.16; see there) I stumbled over quite a few things that have long > been ripe for cleaning up. Hence the tail of 5 further patches ... > > 1: x2APIC: defer probe until after IOMMU ACPI table parsing > 2: APIC: drop clustered_apic_check() hook > 3: APIC: drop {acpi_madt,mps}_oem_check() hooks > 4: APIC: drop probe_default() > 5: APIC: rename cmdline_apic > 6: ACPI: drop dead interpreter-related code Patches 2 thru 6 clean up an area I'd recently stumbled upon. Acked-by: Andrew Cooper Since they clean up a pile of function pointers, I've pulled them into x86-next. Patch 1 is looking very risky at this point, especially given the late correction, and I think it would be wise to wait for 4.17. ~Andrew