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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	frankeh@watson.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMP BUG
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:37:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060215233700.GF1508@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060215153013.474ff5e0.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:30:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > That said, nobody seemed to comment on this patch by Rik, which seemed to 
> >  be a nice cleanup regardless of any other issues.
> 
> I thought that patch wasn't a good one.  The runqueues should be
> initialised in sched_init().  init_idle() is called from fork_idle() which
> is called from the bowels of arch code.  I'm not sure that it gets called
> at all if !SMP (which seems strange).

Wouldn't it make sense to do this initialisation in a CPU_UP_PREPARE
notifier, if not already done?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-14  0:19 SMP BUG Hubertus Franke
2006-02-15 23:07 ` Russell King
2006-02-15 23:17   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-15 23:34     ` Russell King
2006-02-15 23:23   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 23:30     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-15 23:37       ` Russell King [this message]
2006-02-15 23:46         ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-16  0:14           ` Russell King
2006-02-16  0:28             ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-16  0:52       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16  3:29         ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-16  8:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-16 10:20     ` Russell King
2006-02-16 15:54       ` Linus Torvalds

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