Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755472Ab1EXMOn (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 08:14:43 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:41959 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753771Ab1EXMOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 08:14:41 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: David Woodhouse Cc: Youquan Song , "Song, Youquan" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , "Kay, Allen M" , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Sankaran, Rajesh" , "Mallick, Asit K" , "Liu, Kent" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, vt-d: enable x2apic opt out In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 May 2011 08:38:47 BST." <1306222728.2627.49.camel@i7.infradead.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1306161148-3987-1-git-send-email-youquan.song@intel.com> <7457.1306203521@localhost> <20110524153614.GA19080@linux-youquan.bj.intel.com> <17321.1306210686@localhost> <1306222728.2627.49.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1306239208_2659P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:13:28 -0400 Message-ID: <5843.1306239208@localhost> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=steiner.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020208.4DDBA0EE.0010,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1323 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1306239208_2659P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:38:47 BST, David Woodhouse said: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 05:18 +0100, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > Do we want an actual WARN there, complete with stack traceback and > > all? > > > > Or did you intend a pr_warn or printk(KERN_WARNING or similar? > > The traceback has been very useful in other BIOS issues, because it gets > tracked and counted on kerneloops.org along with platform > identification. So we have been able to track down the major offenders > of some of the most egregious BIOS stupidities and make *some* progress > on getting them to improve the untested dross they habitually turn out. Oh OK... that probably is a good idea then. --==_Exmh_1306239208_2659P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFN26DocC3lWbTT17ARAuviAJ0f/hFpxuZc2F0O/KmlnIpwmLgB3QCfcFUd az1zC4vxr2+lbtMH10gNKzQ= =NFFD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1306239208_2659P-- -- 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/