From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262552AbVHDOPl (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:15:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262559AbVHDOPX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:15:23 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27]:52360 "EHLO fed1rmmtao12.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262556AbVHDOOi (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:14:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:14:37 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Andi Kleen Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amitkale@linsyssoft.com Subject: Re: [patch 07/15] Basic x86_64 support Message-ID: <20050804141437.GC3337@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <1.2972005.trini@kernel.crashing.org> <20050803130531.GR10895@wotan.suse.de> <20050803133756.GA3337@smtp.west.cox.net> <20050804123900.GR8266@wotan.suse.de> <20050804140445.GB3337@smtp.west.cox.net> <20050804140620.GW8266@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050804140620.GW8266@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:06:20PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:04:45AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:39:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > That doesn't make much sense here. tasklet will only run when interrupts > > > > > are enabled, and that is much later. You could move it to there. > > > > > > > > Where? Keep in mind it's really only x86_64 that isn't able to break > > > > sooner. > > > > > > The local_irq_enable() call in init/main.c:start_kernel() > > > > But as I say, only x86_64 needs this kind of delay. > > I don't think that's correct. Interrupts should be disabled on all > architectures until that. Right, but we can run sooner elsewhere. It's only x86_64 where we can't run when our commandline bits are parsed and need to wait. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/