On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:56:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > > For many moons, we've been executing identify_cpu()
 > > on the boot processor twice on SMP kernels.
 > > This is harmless, but has a few downsides..
 > > - Extra cruft in bootlog/dmesg
 > > - Spawns one too many timers for the mcheck handler
 > > - possibly other wasteful things..
 > > 
 > > This seems to do the right thing here..

Isn't this always the case on x86 ?
/me waits to hear gory details of some IBM monster.

		Dave

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