Re: safe_smp_processor_id i386 and x86_64

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I was looking at the git log and the below changes confused me.

They are being used to solve different problems.
smp_processor_id on i386 doesn't work when a stack overflow
occurs. safe_smp_processor_id does.

On x86_64 since it is a simple register value we don't have that problem.

Eric
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