Re: [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch in LAPIC initialization

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jan 03 2011 - 13:30:18 EST


On 01/03/2011 07:03 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Doing things conditionally upon spm_processor_id() being zero is
> generally a bad idea, as this means CPU 0 cannot be offlined and
> brought back online later again. While there may be other places where
> this is done, I think adding more of those should be avoided so that
> some day SMP really becomes "symmetrical".
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

The description doesn't really match the subject line...

-hpa
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