Re: [PATCH] Double x86 initialise fix.

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 08:49:47 EST


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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