Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 20:51:23 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] remove set_tsk_need_resched() from init_idle()
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* Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> > The patch below should address this problem for all architectures, by 
> > doing an explicit schedule() in the init code before calling into 
> > cpu_idle().
> 
> Yuck - wouldn't it be better just to fix all the architectures instead 
> of applying band aid?

it's not really a bug in any architecture - it's a scheduler setup 
detail that i changed, and which i initially thought would be best 
handled in cpu_idle(), but which is easier to do in rest_init().

	Ingo
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