From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, manpreet@fabric7.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix timer SMP bootup race
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:18:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050115071825.GA1576@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050114225457.611cea19.akpm@osdl.org>
> I don't get it. By the time the secondaries enter the idle loop, they've
> already run init_timers_cpu() anyway. You patch doesn't address a
The notifier uns only after smp_prepare_cpus and then all the synchronization
is long done.
> secondary taking a timer interrupt prior to the BP having run
> init_timers(), does it?
It initializes the timer of a CPU before it is even touched.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-15 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-15 4:09 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix timer SMP bootup race Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 5:09 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-15 5:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 7:34 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-15 7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-15 7:59 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-16 4:20 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-16 5:34 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-16 6:42 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-15 6:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-15 6:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 6:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-15 7:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-01-17 2:34 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-17 5:43 ` Andi Kleen
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