Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: safe_smp_processor_id i386 and x86_64 | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:58:21 -0600 |
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"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> writes:
> I was looking at the git log and the below changes confused me.
They are being used to solve different problems. smp_processor_id on i386 doesn't work when a stack overflow occurs. safe_smp_processor_id does.
On x86_64 since it is a simple register value we don't have that problem.
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