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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] xen: Don't register GSI in pre-setup

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] xen: Don't register GSI in pre-setup
From: Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:54:01 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:54:27AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 03/24/2010 04:54 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> Xen behaves the same way that native Linux, it only allows any IO-APIC
>> pin to be setup once.  Therefor we must not set it up in the initial run
>> over all legacy interrupts.
> Do you need both this patch and the Xen one to solve your problem, or is  
> one or the other sufficient?

Both are needed.

> Is there any dependency between the Linux and Xen patches?  (Doesn't  
> look like it to me, but I just want to be sure.)

Nope. Thats why the hypervisor patch returns EEXISTS instead of EBUSY.
The later causes a BUG in current kernels, which is emited before the
real console is setup and breaks the system.

Bastian

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