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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: the creation of boot_cpu_init() is wrong and accessing uninitialised data
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:45:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151376313.3443.12.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)

The basic problem with this function is that on most architectures
smp_processor_id() is an alias for current_thread_info()->cpu which
isn't given its correct value until setup_arch(), so adding a
boot_cpu_init() that uses it *before* setup_arch() is called is plain
wrong.  You manage to get away with it 99% of the time because its
uninitialised value is zero and mostly the id of the booting CPU is
zero ... but guess who's got a box currently booting on CPU 1 with no
CPU 0?

Unfortunately, I can't think of a good solution for what you want to do.
The thing that looks most plausible is hard_smp_processor_id() which
reads the actual register value of the processor id.  However, on x86
(and any other architectures that renumber their CPUs in setup_arch())
this will ultimately turn out wrong again.

James



             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-27  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-27  2:45 James Bottomley [this message]
2006-06-27  3:04 ` the creation of boot_cpu_init() is wrong and accessing uninitialised data Andrew Morton
2006-06-27  3:36   ` James Bottomley
2006-06-27  5:03     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-27 13:00       ` Keith Owens
2006-06-27 14:01         ` James Bottomley
2006-06-27 14:49       ` James Bottomley
2006-06-28  0:04         ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  2:45           ` James Bottomley
2006-06-28  2:57             ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28 23:10               ` James Bottomley
2006-06-29 16:58                 ` James Bottomley
2006-07-02 14:52                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 15:06                     ` James Bottomley
2006-07-02 15:37                       ` Eric W. Biederman

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