Re: [KDUMP] Ignore spurious IPI

From: WANG Cong
Date: Fri Mar 25 2011 - 02:45:55 EST


On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:20:32 -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> If so, just initialize the data structure earlier -- change
> init_call_single_data from early_initcall to an explict call after the
> per-cpu areas are initialized.
>

Yeah, this is a good idea, IPI related data structures should be
ready before interrupts are enabled. We should not assume that
there is no IPI pending before init_call_single_data gets initialized,
altough this is true in non-kdump kernel.

Thanks.

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