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* Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Do not call SN_SAL_SET_CPU_NUMBER twice on cpu 0
@ 2006-12-13  1:28 Horms
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From: Horms @ 2006-12-13  1:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:39:23PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote:
> This is an SN specific patch.
> 
> Architectually, cpu_init is always called twice on cpu 0
> and thus resulted in two SN_SAL_SET_CPU_NUMBER calls.
> 
> This was harmless in production kernel; however, it can
> cause problem on booting up a crashdump kernel at Altix.
> 
> Here is the patch that detects the second sn_cpu_init
> call and skips the second call to SN_SAL_SET_CPU_NUMBER.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>

That looks fine to me.

Acked: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

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