From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:06:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:06:05 -0500 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:8114 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:06:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:14:06 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrew Morton , george anzinger cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH]Timer list init is done AFTER use Message-ID: <14540000.1040591645@titus> In-Reply-To: <3E0579F8.CF1D94A9@digeo.com> References: <3E02D81F.13A5A59D@mvista.com> <3E02F073.BF57207C@digeo.com> <3E0350CA.6B99F722@mvista.com> <3E0370C1.21909EF5@digeo.com> <3E03772A.D5D85171@mvista.com> <3E0579F8.CF1D94A9@digeo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The boot cpu is set online extremely late. Strangely late. Why > is this? > > How about something like the below? We mark the boot cpu > online in generic code as soon as it has initialised its per-cpu > storage (seems appropriate?) I seem to recall some related problem with the topology stuff ... anyway, I tested your patch on a 16-way NUMA-Q and it works just fine. Thanks for fixing that up .... > This will then allow that cpu to actually start calling into console > drivers, if they have been registered. If those drivers do a mod_timer() > (as the vga console does) then that will work OK. Would be nice to shift generic console_init earlier, if that's what you're implying, but we still need early_printk for setup_arch. M.