> 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. Thanks, -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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