From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> For parallel CPU brinugp it's required to read the APIC ID in the low level startup code. The virtual APIC base address is a constant because its a fix-mapped address. Exposing that constant which is composed via macros to assembly code is non-trivial due to header inclusion hell. Aside of that it's constant only because of the vsyscall ABI requirement. Once vsyscall is out of the picture the fixmap can be placed at runtime. Avoid header hell, stay flexible and store the address in a variable which can be exposed to the low level startup code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- V4: Fixed changelog typo - Sergey --- arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ extern void nmi_selftest(void); #endif extern unsigned int smpboot_control; +extern unsigned long apic_mmio_base; #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ static int apic_extnmi __ro_after_init = */ static bool virt_ext_dest_id __ro_after_init; +/* For parallel bootup. */ +unsigned long apic_mmio_base __ro_after_init; + /* * Map cpu index to physical APIC ID */ @@ -2163,6 +2166,7 @@ void __init register_lapic_address(unsig if (!x2apic_mode) { set_fixmap_nocache(FIX_APIC_BASE, address); + apic_mmio_base = APIC_BASE; apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "mapped APIC to %16lx (%16lx)\n", APIC_BASE, address); }