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Message-Id: <1179830248.12708.120.camel@chaos>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:37:28 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: fix early usage of atomic_add_return and
local_add_return on real i386
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:34 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:48, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The check (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 3) in atomic_add_return() and
> > local_add_return() fails, when those operations are used before
> > boot_cpu_data is filled in.
> >
> > Change the check to (boot_cpu_data.x86 <= 3) to fix this.
>
> That's a critical boot fix for 386, right?
Yup. Hit me with some debug option enabled, but might happen anywhere
else too.
tglx
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