From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@intellilink.co.jp>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, vgoyal@in.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] stack overflow safe kdump (2.6.16-rc1-i386) - safe_smp_processor_id
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:53:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601250853.48193.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124231052.7c9fcbec.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 08:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It assumes that all x86 SMP machines have APICs. That's untrue of Voyager.
> I think we can probably live with this assumption - others would know
> better than I.
Early x86s didn't have APICs and they are still often disabled on not so
old mobile CPUs. I don't think it's a good assumption to make for i386.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-25 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-25 6:51 [PATCH 1/5] stack overflow safe kdump (2.6.16-rc1-i386) - safe_smp_processor_id Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2006-01-25 7:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25 7:53 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-25 7:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25 8:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-25 8:50 ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2006-01-25 10:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-25 9:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-25 10:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
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