Merge tag 'x86-apic-2024-09-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 APIC updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Handle an allocation failure in the IO/APIC code gracefully instead of crashing the machine. - Remove support for APIC local destination mode on 64bit Logical destination mode of the local APIC is used for systems with up to 8 CPUs. It has an advantage over physical destination mode as it allows to target multiple CPUs at once with IPIs. That advantage was definitely worth it when systems with up to 8 CPUs were state of the art for servers and workstations, but that's history. In the recent past there were quite some reports of new laptops failing to boot with logical destination mode, but they work fine with physical destination mode. That's not a suprise because physical destination mode is guaranteed to work as it's the only way to get a CPU up and running via the INIT/INIT/STARTUP sequence. Some of the affected systems were cured by BIOS updates, but not all OEMs provide them. As the number of CPUs keep increasing, logical destination mode becomes less used and the benefit for small systems, like laptops, is not really worth the trouble. So just remove logical destination mode support for 64bit and be done with it. - Code and comment cleanups in the APIC area. * tag 'x86-apic-2024-09-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/irq: Fix comment on IRQ vector layout x86/apic: Remove unused extern declarations x86/apic: Remove logical destination mode for 64-bit x86/apic: Remove unused inline function apic_set_eoi_cb() x86/ioapic: Cleanup remaining coding style issues x86/ioapic: Cleanup line breaks x86/ioapic: Cleanup bracket usage x86/ioapic: Cleanup comments x86/ioapic: Move replace_pin_at_irq_node() to the call site iommu/vt-d: Cleanup apic_printk() x86/mpparse: Cleanup apic_printk()s x86/ioapic: Cleanup guarded debug printk()s x86/ioapic: Cleanup apic_printk()s x86/apic: Cleanup apic_printk()s x86/apic: Provide apic_printk() helpers x86/ioapic: Use guard() for locking where applicable x86/ioapic: Cleanup structs x86/ioapic: Mark mp_alloc_timer_irq() __init x86/ioapic: Handle allocation failures gracefully
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