[PATCH 0/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP

HATAYAMA Daisuke d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Aug 29 19:51:41 EDT 2013


(2013/08/29 22:54), H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/29/2013 02:27 AM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
>> This is the patch series to address the issue that kdump 2nd kernel
>> now fails to wake up multiple CPUs.
>
> Please explain the "now" in the above sentence.  Is this a regression?
> If so, what is its impact?  Is this something that needs to go into 3.11
> as a post-rc7 change, which means it better be hyper-critical?
>
> 	-hpa
>
>

This is not a regression just as Eric explains.

There is also my explanation in the description of the 2nd patch. I should have described so here explicitly.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke




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