Re: [PATCH] fix 4k irqstacks on x86 (and add voyager support)

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 10:31:54 EST


On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, James Bottomley wrote:

> There's a bug in the x86 code in that it sets the boot CPU to zero.
> This isn't correct since some subarch's use physically indexed CPUs.
> However, subarchs have either set the boot cpu before irq_INIT() (or
> just inherited the default zero from INIT_THREAD_INFO()), so it's safe
> to believe current_thread_info()->cpu about the boot cpu.

There is also smp_boot_cpus() which sets it to zero yet again later on =)
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