Re: Buggy IPI and MTRR code on low memory

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:12:02 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thought: do we need to do the kmalloc at all?  Perhaps we can instead
> use a statically allocated per-cpu call_single_data local to
> kernel/smp.c?  It would need a spinlock or something to protect it...

(not a spinlock - get_cpu_var/put_cpu_var will suffice)
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