Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:57:00 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] [patch] x86_64: align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary |
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> Just that any writes on the bp GDT will invalidate the idt_table cacheline, > which is read mostly (as Nippun pointed out). So could we keep the padding > as it is for the BP too?
Yes, good point.
> Attached is the patch which fixes the retval in do_boot_cpu to return -1. > __cpu_up handles -1. > > Hope this patch is OK.
Looks good.
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