[RFC] Old paca being written by firmware after kexec

[Michael Ellerman]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:05, Milton Miller wrote:
> >  static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
> >  {
> >  	int my_cpu, i, notified=-1;
> >
> > +	/* FIXME: I'd rather do this after the loop but we clobber hw_cpu_id
> > */
>
> i'd rather each cpu do it in kexec-cpu-down

I've coded that up, but then the calling cpu never does vpa_shutdown(). Why 
don't we just do it in a loop?

cheers

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