Re: SMP BUG

[Russell King]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:30:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That said, nobody seemed to comment on this patch by Rik, which seemed to 
> >  be a nice cleanup regardless of any other issues.
> 
> I thought that patch wasn't a good one.  The runqueues should be
> initialised in sched_init().  init_idle() is called from fork_idle() which
> is called from the bowels of arch code.  I'm not sure that it gets called
> at all if !SMP (which seems strange).

Wouldn't it make sense to do this initialisation in a CPU_UP_PREPARE
notifier, if not already done?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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