From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753869AbYFTJN1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:13:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751962AbYFTJNS (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:13:18 -0400 Received: from smtp-out01.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.60.11]:20074 "EHLO smtp-out01.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751674AbYFTJNR (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:13:17 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Len Brown , Yinghai Lu , "Eric W. Biederman" , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7 From: Andi Kleen References: <200806011317.38622.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <86802c440806181532g348864e1u3d067f8366046a7f@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440806181749g2faf1892iea693717ea919631@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440806190031q17049054md2a790224d30d29@mail.gmail.com> <20080620064750.GB31182@elte.hu> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:12:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080620064750.GB31182@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:47:50 +0200") Message-ID: <871w2sbhbm.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jun 2008 09:05:30.0983 (UTC) FILETIME=[CA49A770:01C8D2B4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar writes: > Yinghai: Len has a point, could you please double-check that no > potentially risky code runs by default anywhere, without a specific boot > option? update_mptable is supposed to achieve that, but lets make sure > it does its job. It's not done for the NUMAQ genericarch. -Andi