Re: [PATCH 7/8] Implement smp_processor_id() with the PDA.

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Ian Campbell wrote:
This doesn't compile for me if CONFIG_SMP=n

Ah, good point.

          LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
        arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpu_init':
        (.init.text+0x1eda): undefined reference to `early_smp_processor_id'
        arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpu_init':
        (.init.text+0x1f11): undefined reference to `early_smp_processor_id'
smp_processor_id() is defined for !SMP in include/linux/smp.h, I don't
know if it would be appropriate to add early_smp_processor_id() there
since it seems i386 specific. asm/smp.h isn't included by linux/smp.h
when !SMP but you could add an explicit include to common.c I suppose.

I'll have a look.

I think my preferred solution would be to get rid of all the early* stuff, and try to arrange to have the PDA set up before C code gets run. For the boot CPU, it really could be done statically (I'm not quite sure why the boot CPU's GDT is allocated, given that it already has a static one; I think this might have been a Xen-related change?). The secondary CPUs could have their GDT+PDA completely allocated and initialized in advance, making secondary CPU PDA setup just a matter of doing lgdt and setting %gs in head.S, even before hitting C code.

   J
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