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

H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-01T06:31:17Z

On 03/31/2010 03:26 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Not by adding overhead to every single down_read()/down_write() just to
> fix a once-off startup problem - that's taking laziness way too far.
>

How much overhead is this on non-x86 architectures (keep in mind x86
doesn't use this?)

-hpa

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