From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Double x86 initialise fix.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:49:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021026134947.GA31349@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035640580.13032.100.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:56:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > For many moons, we've been executing identify_cpu()
> > on the boot processor twice on SMP kernels.
> > This is harmless, but has a few downsides..
> > - Extra cruft in bootlog/dmesg
> > - Spawns one too many timers for the mcheck handler
> > - possibly other wasteful things..
> >
> > This seems to do the right thing here..
Isn't this always the case on x86 ?
/me waits to hear gory details of some IBM monster.
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-26 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 12:42 [PATCH] Double x86 initialise fix davej
2002-10-26 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-26 13:49 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-10-26 13:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-26 15:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-26 15:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-26 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-28 19:57 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-10-26 14:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
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