Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Anyone has this working? Looks like there is a chicken-and-egg issue
> with pda setup:
>
> * xen_load_gdt() uses multicalls, thus depends on cpu-specific
> variables (per-cpu mc buffer) which in turn requires pda being
> setup already.
> * pda setup can't be done before xen_load_gdt() ...
>
Good point. I haven't done any SMP work yet, so if anything works at
all it is pure luck.
> Next question while looking at xen_load_gdt(): why does it use
> multicalls in the first place? Seems that function puts only one
> hypercall into the multicall array, so there is no obvious point in
> using multicalls ...
>
I think you're right; I probably converted it when I swept through and
did the others without really thinking about the bootstrap consequences.
J
