Re: [PATCH] x86: Execute WP test after interrupts are enabled

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Tue Aug 25 2009 - 15:38:01 EST


Is there any reason to run this test at all on Xen? It's only needed
for real 386 and some broken 486 processors.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Pekka Enberg<penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 83b519e8b9572c319c8e0c615ee5dd7272856090 ("slab: setup allocators
> earlier in the boot sequence") changed the boot sequence to call
> mem_init() early. Unfortunately Xen is not prepared to handle the WP test at
> that point so we need to make the test run later.
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