Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754404AbXL3SKx (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:10:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752038AbXL3SKo (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:10:44 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:49821 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751821AbXL3SKn (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:10:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:10:04 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Rene Herman , dpreed@reed.com, Islam Amer , hpa@zytor.com, Pavel Machek , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override Message-ID: <20071230181004.GA21968@elte.hu> References: <9FXbU-3M4-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <9G2Om-4hg-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <9G7O3-3O2-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <9G8qN-4TX-13@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 591 Lines: 17 * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote: > BTW: The error function in > linux-2.6.23/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c uses while(1) without > cpu_relax() in order to halt the machine. Is this fixed? Should it be > fixed? this is early bootup so there's no need to be "nice" to other cores or sockets - none of them are really running. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/