[PATCH] Disable APIC on reboot
This disables the local APIC before reboot. This fixes BIOS reboot problems reported by a few people. disable_local_APIC() now checks if detect_init_APIC() enabled the local APIC via the APIC_BASE MSR, and if so it now disables APIC_BASE. Previously we would leave APIC_BASE enabled, and that made some BIOSen unhappy. The SMP reboot code calls disable_local_APIC(). On SMP HW there is no change since detect_init_APIC() isn't called and APIC_BASE isn't enabled by us. An SMP kernel on UP HW behaves just like an UP_APIC kernel, so it disables APIC_BASE if we enabled it at boot. The UP_APIC disable-before-suspend code is simplified since the existing code to disable APIC_BASE is moved into disable_local_APIC(). (Felix Kühling originally reported the BIOS reboot problem. This is a fixed-up version of his preliminary patch.)
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