Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:14:37 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: [patch 07/15] Basic x86_64 support |
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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.
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