Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 19:07, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > No quite I put the cpu_info structure at the bottom of the stack, > > and this function looks it up. > > > > The same idea has been used in the kernel for quite a while. > > > > Basically this allows me to preallocate some per cpu information > > and to pass that into cpu_initialize from another cpu. > > > > The linux kernel has been doing something similar for quite a while. > > > > Does cpu_info() return different value depends on which CPU it is > running ?
Yes. The stack is per cpu and it returns a fixed address from the stack structure. > Are the data structures per CPU or shared between CPUs ? per-cpu. Which is the point. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
