Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 21:35, Willy TARREAU wrote:

>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +	/* 2002/08/01 - WT
> +	 * This is to avoid random crashes at boot time during initialization
> +	 * on SMP systems in case of "apm=power-off" mode. Seen on ASUS A7M266D.
> +	 * Some bioses don't like being called from CPU != 0.
> +	 */
> +	while (cpu_number_map(smp_processor_id()) != 0) {
> +		schedule();
> +	}
> +#endif

What guarantees that loop will ever exit ?