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    x86/apic: Make cpu_mask_to_apicid() operations return error code · ff164324
    Alexander Gordeev authored
    Current cpu_mask_to_apicid() and cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
    implementations have few shortcomings:
    
    1. A value returned by cpu_mask_to_apicid() is written to
    hardware registers unconditionally. Should BAD_APICID get ever
    returned it will be written to a hardware too. But the value of
    BAD_APICID is not universal across all hardware in all modes and
    might cause unexpected results, i.e. interrupts might get routed
    to CPUs that are not configured to receive it.
    
    2. Because the value of BAD_APICID is not universal it is
    counter- intuitive to return it for a hardware where it does not
    make sense (i.e. x2apic).
    
    3. cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() operation is thought as an
    complement to cpu_mask_to_apicid() that only applies a AND mask
    on top of a cpumask being passed. Yet, as consequence of 18374d89
    commit the two operations are inconsistent in that of:
      cpu_mask_to_apicid() should not get a offline CPU with the cpumask
      cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() should not fail and return BAD_APICID
    These limitations are impossible to realize just from looking at
    the operations prototypes.
    
    Most of these shortcomings are resolved by returning a error
    code instead of BAD_APICID. As the result, faults are reported
    back early rather than possibilities to cause a unexpected
    behaviour exist (in case of [1]).
    
    The only exception is setup_timer_IRQ0_pin() routine. Although
    obviously controversial to this fix, its existing behaviour is
    preserved to not break the fragile check_timer() and would
    better addressed in a separate fix.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
    Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120607131559.GF4759@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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