Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] x86: ACPI / APIC / IOMMU interaction

[Andrew Cooper <amc96@xxxxxxxx>]

On 05/11/2021 12:30, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While reworking patch 1 (the only one here that I consider a candidate
> for 4.16; see there) I stumbled over quite a few things that have long
> been ripe for cleaning up. Hence the tail of 5 further patches ...
>
> 1: x2APIC: defer probe until after IOMMU ACPI table parsing
> 2: APIC: drop clustered_apic_check() hook
> 3: APIC: drop {acpi_madt,mps}_oem_check() hooks
> 4: APIC: drop probe_default()
> 5: APIC: rename cmdline_apic
> 6: ACPI: drop dead interpreter-related code
Patches 2 thru 6 clean up an area I'd recently stumbled upon.

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Since they clean up a pile of function pointers, I've pulled them into 
x86-next.

Patch 1 is looking very risky at this point, especially given the late 
correction, and I think it would be wise to wait for 4.17.
~Andrew