> I'm working with a (approximately) 2.4.17 kernel from the mips-linux
> tree (oss.sgi.com).
>
> I'd like to propose removing the "__init" designation from init_idle in
> kernel/sched.c, since this is called from rest_init via cpu_idle.
> Notice that rest_init isn't in an init section, and explicitly mentions
> that it's avoiding a race with free_initmem. In my kernel (an SMP
> kernel running on a system with only 1 available CPU), cpu_idle isn't
> getting called until after free_initmem().
>
> My CPU is MIPS, but it looks like x86 could experience the same problem.
I fixed something in this area for x86, looks like the same code path
for MIPS unless I'm misreading.
smp_init spins waiting on wait_init_idle until every cpu has done
init_idle. rest_init() isn't called until smp_init returns, so I'm not sure
how you could hit this (possibly there's a minute window after init_idle
clears the bit, but before it returns?).
M.
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