From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:41:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:41:50 -0400 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:45217 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:41:50 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:49:47 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , alan@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Double x86 initialise fix. Message-ID: <20021026134947.GA31349@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , alan@redhat.com References: <200210261242.g9QCgSqp030280@noodles.internal> <1035640580.13032.100.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1035640580.13032.100.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk