Re: [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix timer SMP bootup race

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 00:44:23 EST


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:34:24PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 05:09 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Fix boot up SMP race in timer setup on i386/x86-64.
>
> How's this? Didn't do x86-64, but tested on i386.

Looks ok to me. You're right that the commenced check should
do the necessary synchronization before the idle loop
is entered.

-Andi
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