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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

  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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