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

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 10:36:18 EST


On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:29, Zwane Mwaikambo 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 =)

That's PC specific, not subarch generic, so it doesn't matter to me.

James


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