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PIC interrupts do not support affinity setting and they can end up on
any online CPU. Therefore, it's required to mark the associated vectors
as system-wide reserved. Otherwise, the corresponding irq descriptors
are copied to the secondary CPUs but the vectors are not marked as
assigned or reserved. This works correctly for the IO/APIC case.

When the IO/APIC is disabled via config, kernel command line or lack of
enumeration then all legacy interrupts are routed through the PIC, but
nothing marks them as system-wide reserved vectors.

As a consequence, a subsequent allocation on a secondary CPU can result in
allocating one of these vectors, which triggers the BUG() in
apic_update_vector() because the interrupt descriptor slot is not empty.

Imran tried to work around that by marking those interrupts as allocated
when a CPU comes online. But that's wrong in case that the IO/APIC is
available and one of the legacy interrupts, e.g. IRQ0, has been...