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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-05-02 19:27:10 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:10 +0200
commitae1ee11be77f51cedb6c569887dddc70c163ab6d (patch)
treee579a6a6d10c6835cab9af47a2795bf40f669da6 /arch/i386/mach-voyager
parent[PATCH] x86: add command line length to boot protocol (diff)
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[PATCH] i386: Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA
Allocating PDA and GDT at boot is a pain. Using simple per-cpu variables adds happiness (although we need the GDT page-aligned for Xen, which we do in a followup patch). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/mach-voyager')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c b/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
index 74aeedf277f4..15d8132d4f5e 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
@@ -580,15 +580,7 @@ do_boot_cpu(__u8 cpu)
/* init_tasks (in sched.c) is indexed logically */
stack_start.esp = (void *) idle->thread.esp;
- /* Pre-allocate and initialize the CPU's GDT and PDA so it
- doesn't have to do any memory allocation during the
- delicate CPU-bringup phase. */
- if (!init_gdt(cpu, idle)) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "Couldn't allocate GDT/PDA for CPU %d\n", cpu);
- cpucount--;
- return;
- }
-
+ init_gdt(cpu, idle);
irq_ctx_init(cpu);
/* Note: Don't modify initial ss override */