Re: 2.4.20pre8aa2

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2002.10.02 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>URL:
>
>	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.20pre8aa2.gz
>	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.20pre8aa2/
>
>Changelog between 2.4.20pre8aa1 and 2.4.20pre8aa2:
>

I was rediffing the task_cpu patch, when reached a new hunk in -aa:

kernel/sched.c::sched_init(void):

+   current->cpu = smp_processor_id();

As include/asm-i386/smp.h says, 

#define smp_processor_id() (current->cpu)

So you have a harmless and useless assignment...
unless you really wanted to do any other thing, or
smp_processor_id() != current->cpu in some arch.

???

TIA

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