[coreboot] Re: Atomic Accesses to Local APIC

[ron minnich]

nice fine. Might be worth adding the text of this comment (modified as
needed) to the CL so that in years to come people understand the
reasons.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:51 PM Matt B  wrote:
> A quick google turned this up:
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/chromeos-3...
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:06 AM Julian Stecklina  wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 09:29 +0300, Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:12 PM Julian Stecklina
> > >  wrote:
> > > > But it looks like the workaround was just carried forward with no discussion
> > > > of
> > > > whether it's still necessary or what it actually works around.
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Removal has been suggested with the X2APIC work:
> > >
> > > https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/55199
> >
> > I've been looking at 4.13 instead of master. My bad. In master, indeed most
> > atomic accesses are gone and the ones writing to ICR are left. This mostly makes
> > sense and is much clearer now. :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Julian
> >
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