From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: the creation of boot_cpu_init() is wrong and accessing uninitialised data
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:45:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151376313.3443.12.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
The basic problem with this function is that on most architectures
smp_processor_id() is an alias for current_thread_info()->cpu which
isn't given its correct value until setup_arch(), so adding a
boot_cpu_init() that uses it *before* setup_arch() is called is plain
wrong. You manage to get away with it 99% of the time because its
uninitialised value is zero and mostly the id of the booting CPU is
zero ... but guess who's got a box currently booting on CPU 1 with no
CPU 0?
Unfortunately, I can't think of a good solution for what you want to do.
The thing that looks most plausible is hard_smp_processor_id() which
reads the actual register value of the processor id. However, on x86
(and any other architectures that renumber their CPUs in setup_arch())
this will ultimately turn out wrong again.
James
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-27 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-27 2:45 James Bottomley [this message]
2006-06-27 3:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-27 3:36 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-27 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-27 13:00 ` Keith Owens
2006-06-27 14:01 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-27 14:49 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-28 0:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28 2:45 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-28 2:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28 23:10 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-29 16:58 ` James Bottomley
2006-07-02 14:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-02 15:06 ` James Bottomley
2006-07-02 15:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
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