linux/arch
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 6211119580 [PATCH] i386: Initialize the per-CPU data area
When a CPU is brought up, a PDA and GDT are allocated for it.  The GDT's
__KERNEL_PDA entry is pointed to the allocated PDA memory, so that all
references using this segment descriptor will refer to the PDA.

This patch rearranges CPU initialization a bit, so that the GDT/PDA are set up
as early as possible in cpu_init().  Also for secondary CPUs, GDT+PDA are
preallocated and initialized so all the secondary CPU needs to do is set up
the ldt and load %gs.  This will be important once smp_processor_id() and
current use the PDA.

In all cases, the PDA is set up in head.S, before a CPU starts running C code,
so the PDA is always available.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:02 +01:00
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i386 [PATCH] i386: Initialize the per-CPU data area 2006-12-07 02:14:02 +01:00
ia64
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m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: remove __rom_end from 68360 startup code 2006-12-04 08:26:12 -08:00
mips [MIPS] Cleanup memory barriers for weakly ordered systems. 2006-12-04 22:43:14 +00:00
parisc
powerpc [POWERPC] Add missing EXPORTS for mpc52xx support 2006-12-05 11:34:37 +11:00
ppc [POWERPC] Add files build to .gitignore 2006-12-04 20:41:29 +11:00
s390 [S390] Don't use small stacks when lockdep is used. 2006-12-04 15:41:10 +01:00
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x86_64 [PATCH] x86-64: miscellaneous entry.S adjustments 2006-12-07 02:14:02 +01:00
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