Re: Where to initialize certain locks...

Terry Lambert wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > We need mutexes prior to mi_startup().
> 
> There are really two problems with this theory:
> 
> 1)      You can't use them before the mutex system is initialized,
>         which happens from mi_startup.
> 
> 2)      There are no contended resources until after mi_startup
>         starts the other CPU(s).

Forgot:

3)	I never said to call the init routine at mi_startup();
	you could actually call it as early as you wanted, as
	long as there were no dependencies on things like
	memory allocation.

-- Terry

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