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> The boot cpu is set online extremely late. Strangely late. Why > is this? > > How about something like the below? We mark the boot cpu > online in generic code as soon as it has initialised its per-cpu > storage (seems appropriate?) I seem to recall some related problem with the topology stuff ... anyway, I tested your patch on a 16-way NUMA-Q and it works just fine. Thanks for fixing that up .... > This will then allow that cpu to actually start calling into console > drivers, if they have been registered. If those drivers do a mod_timer() > (as the vga console does) then that will work OK. Would be nice to shift generic console_init earlier, if that's what you're implying, but we still need early_printk for setup_arch. M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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