RE: [PATCH v2] x86: add a new SMP bring up way for tboot case

2013-04-11 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
t; Xiaoyan > Zhang; Wei, Gang > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: add a new SMP bring up way for tboot case > > On 03/19/2013 07:14 PM, Ren, Qiaowei wrote: > > Any comments on this patch? > > > > Thanks, > > Qiaowei > > The biggest question is probably if we can

Re: [PATCH v2] x86: add a new SMP bring up way for tboot case

2013-03-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 03/19/2013 07:14 PM, Ren, Qiaowei wrote: > Any comments on this patch? > > Thanks, > Qiaowei The biggest question is probably if we can use an existing hook of some sort. Overriding the apic method is probably not the right way to go, though. tglx, do you have any opinions here? Furthermore

RE: [PATCH v2] x86: add a new SMP bring up way for tboot case

2013-03-19 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Any comments on this patch? Thanks, Qiaowei -Original Message- From: Ren, Qiaowei Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 6:11 PM To: Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; H. Peter Anvin; x...@kernel.org Cc: Maliszewski, Richard L; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; tboot-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; Ren,

RE: [PATCH v2] x86: add a new SMP bring up way for tboot case

2012-11-14 Thread Wei, Gang
Any comments on this patch? Jimmy Ren, Qiaowei wrote on 2012-10-11: > tboot provides a better AP wakeup mechanism based on cpu MWAIT feature > for OS/VMM. With this mechanism, system will boot faster and will NOT > require VT to be enabled. But it requires that OS/VMM must have support > it, othe