1 files changed, 8 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index 79e5b92a5800..072aea6c630b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ unsigned int boot_cpu_physical_apicid = -1U;
 /*
  * The highest APIC ID seen during enumeration.
  *
- * This determines the messaging protocol we can use: if all APIC IDs
+ * On AMD, this determines the messaging protocol we can use: if all APIC IDs
  * are in the 0 ... 7 range, then we can use logical addressing which
  * has some performance advantages (better broadcasting).
  *
@@ -1915,24 +1915,14 @@ void __cpuinit generic_processor_info(int apicid, int version)
                 max_physical_apicid = apicid;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-        /*
-         * Would be preferable to switch to bigsmp when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
-         * but we need to work other dependencies like SMP_SUSPEND etc
-         * before this can be done without some confusion.
-         * if (CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED || num_processors > 8)
-         *       - Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
-         */
-        if (max_physical_apicid >= 8) {
-                switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
-                case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
-                        if (!APIC_XAPIC(version)) {
-                                def_to_bigsmp = 0;
-                                break;
-                        }
-                        /* If P4 and above fall through */
-                case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
+        switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
+        case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
+                if (num_processors > 8)
+                        def_to_bigsmp = 1;
+                break;
+        case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
+                if (max_physical_apicid >= 8)
                         def_to_bigsmp = 1;
-                }
         }
 #endif