Re: [PATCH] Double x86 initialise fix.
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
26 Oct 2002 14:56:20 +0100
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 13:42, davej@codemonkey.org.uk wrote:
> For many moons, we've been executing identify_cpu()
> on the boot processor twice on SMP kernels.
> This is harmless, but has a few downsides..
> - Extra cruft in bootlog/dmesg
> - Spawns one too many timers for the mcheck handler
> - possibly other wasteful things..
>
> This seems to do the right thing here..
How do you know the boot CPU is CPU#0
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