On Thursday 31 January 2008 08:36:02 Huang, Ying wrote: > Because in i386 early boot stage, boot_cpu_data may be not available, > which makes clflush_cach_range() into infinite loop, which is called > by change_page_attr(). This patch fixes this by providing a default > clflush_size of 64. But the better method may be providing a > early_identify_cpu() for i386.
There already is one. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:early_cpu_detect Just set it to 64 there. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/