On 07/20/16 at 08:32am, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, bhe at redhat.com wrote: > > On 07/20/16 at 03:54am, Wei, Jiangang wrote: > > > > > In fact, Eric and Ingo suggested that "it should be fixed in the bootup > > > path of the dump kernel, not the crash kernel reboot path", which is > > > convincing and reasonable. > > > > Well this patch doesn't do differently with Eric's original implemention > > in kexec/kdump path. > > By taking out clear_IO_APIC from disable_IO_APIC, the left code of > > disable_IO_APIC will only do the virtual wire setting. So for > > kexec/kdump path, code basically is the same as Eric's method. But for > > poweroff/halt/reboot, it's enough to call clear_IO_APIC to disable > > IO-APIC. > > You're completely ignoring what Jiangang said: > > "it should be fixed in the bootup path of the dump kernel, not the crash > kernel reboot path" > > and that's the right way to do it. End of story. Thanks, tglx. What I did is like reverting commit 522e6646446. But it would be great if we can change to fix it in bootup path. Thanks Baoquan