RE: [PATCH v6 07/12] x86/head_32.S: Define start_cpu0

[H. Peter Anvin]

I just meant: please check if there are any conflicts .. 

"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:31 AM
>> To: Yu, Fenghua; Ingo Molnar; Thomas Gleixner; Linus Torvalds; Andrew
>> Morton; Mallick, Asit K; Luck, Tony; Arjan Dan De Ven; Siddha, Suresh
>B;
>> Brown, Len; Srivatssa S. Bhat; Randy Dunlap; Chen Gong; linux-kernel;
>> linux-pm; x86
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 07/12] x86/head_32.S: Define start_cpu0
>> 
>> Can you check how this interacts with tip:x86/realmode?
>
>When CPU0 is waken up by NMI, it's in protect mode and jumps to
>start_cpu0() which only sets up stack and goes to initial_code. CPU0
>wake up doesn't go through trampline and starts from real mode. This is
>different from waking up AP when AP goes through INIT/STARTUP sequence
>and starts from real mode.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Fenghua

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