Re: [RFC/PATCH] Make printk work for really early debugging

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:55 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Michael Ellerman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Currently printk is no use for early debugging because it refuses to actually
> > print anything to the console unless cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) is true.
> 
> On x86-64 this is simply solved by setting the boot processor online very early.

I had a closer look at this, and we could actually fudge it so that
cpu_online() is true in our early boot code, even though we don't know
what cpu we're on.

But that kind of begs the question, what does "cpu_online(x)" actually
mean? If it doesn't mean percpu data is allocated, what does it mean?

cheers

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