On Monday 29 August 2005 19:45, Tom Rini wrote: > > Bob did this part (forgot to CC him, oops). But I believe it's needed > for setting traps so much earlier.
Ok looking again I guess he needed it for the GDT access in cpu_init > > > + if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "no context", regs, error_code, 14, > > > + SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP) > > > + return; > > > + > > > > I can see the point of that. It's ok if you submit it as a separate > > patch. > > I can split that out into one that follows the KDB_VECTOR rename easily > enough. That's fine. The rename is fine for me too btw. > > > Regarding early trap init: I would have no problem to move all of > > traps_init into setup_arch (and leave traps_init empty for generic code). > > I actually don't know why it runs so late. But doing it half way is ugly. > > Should I make setup_per_cpu_area and trap_init empty and turn the real > ones into early_foo? setup_per_cpu_area is still needed later because it needs to allocate for non BP and you cannot do that that early. -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/
