Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, espfix: use spin_lock rather than mutex

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 05/14/2015 02:27 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Remove stable@ from CC.
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 08:29:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> We could allocate them on the boot CPU side and hand them over to the 
>> secondary CPU.
> 
> Yeah, something along those lines. I mean, they're allocated and in-use
> during the complete system lifetime, we might just as well allocate them
> all in one go. Btw, what's our allocator that early, memblock?
> 
> Still, what I find strange is why are we seeing this only now? Is it
> because it had to be a big box (cpu >= 128) or something else changed...?
> 

Quite probable.  You don't really want to allocate them until you know
if a CPU at least exists, though.

I like Ingo's suggestion of allocating them before CPU bringup on the
initiating CPU.

	-hpa