[PATCH] Assume we're on cpu 0 in early boot

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:42 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Michael Ellerman writes:
> 
> > There's a small period early in boot where we don't know which cpu we're
> > running on. That's ok, except that it means we have no paca, or more
> > correctly that our paca pointer points somewhere random.
> > 
> > So that we can safely call things like smp_processor_id(), we need a paca,
> > so just assume we're on cpu 0. No code should _write_ to the paca before
> > we've set the correct one up.
> 
> OK, but why not just do a setup_paca(0) at the start of early_setup(),
> in C code?  You can also remove the redundant paca setting in
> start_here_common() in head_64.S.

Yep, duh. New patch RSN.

cheers

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