Re: start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-31T22:38:04Z

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:42 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> Do not run the checks while we are in a single threaded context?
>
> I thought we had some dynamic code patching thingamy that could change
> those when we go to smp mode?

The problem isn't about checks. Those -will- enable IRQs before it's
safe to do so, the checks are perfectly right to point it out, it -is- a
bug waiting to happen on some random HW.

Cheers,
Ben.