Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932137AbXAHVeK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:34:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932126AbXAHVeK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:34:10 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:60461 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932137AbXAHVeI (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:34:08 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Lu, Yinghai" Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Tobias Diedrich" , "Andrew Morton" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Andi Kleen" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails. References: <5986589C150B2F49A46483AC44C7BCA490736A@ssvlexmb2.amd.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:33:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5986589C150B2F49A46483AC44C7BCA490736A@ssvlexmb2.amd.com> (Yinghai Lu's message of "Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:53:39 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 19 "Lu, Yinghai" writes: >>So that doesn't invalidate the generic test. I'm going to go dig >>out what little information I have and see if I can stair at the >>register definition. > > Someone said we can that info about that reg in Kernel. And only > firmware can use that. We can do all kinds of things when firmware gets it wrong, and in this case I just want a deeper understanding. Once I understand that mess I will decide what to do about it. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/