* Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Stoney Wang <song-bo.w...@hp.com>
> >>
> >> When HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server boot without x2apic_phys, there will be
> >> intermittent lost interrupts and could result in a hang or data loss.
> >
> > What does 'boot without x2apic_phys' mean?
> >
> > Does it mean x2apic_phys=0 boot command line? Or, because
> > x2apic_phys is off by default, does it simply mean that if it's
> > booted with a default kernel, without any workaround specified
> > on the boot command line?
>
> means that user does not append "x2apic_phys" in boot command line.
The user does not append a whole lot of other
behavior-modification command line options either! There's no
apic=0 line either. Nor smp=0.
Adding this essentially irrelevant piece of information to the
*FIRST*, most important sentence of the changelog is thus not
just confusing but utterly misleading. Communications 101.
Instead it should say something like:
When a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server boots a regular kernel,
there will be intermittent lost interrupts which could
result in a hang or (in extreme cases) data loss.
The reason is that this system only supports x2apic physical
mode, while the kernel boots with a logical-cluster default
setting.
This bug can be worked around by specifying the x2apic_phys=1
boot option, but we want to handle this sytem without
requiring manual workarounds.
Right? Writing a clean changelog is like writing clean code -
you have to learn it if you want to contribute to the kernel
smoothly. Think of it as an engineering task: the other required
half of modifying kernel code.
Thanks,
Ingo
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