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Subjectwhy is trampoline.S code copied for each cpu?
Hi guys,

The arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c:do_boot_cpu() uses setup_trampoline() to
copy the trampoline.S code for each cpu. Why not point all of them to the
same copy? So I looked in trampoline.S and discovered the answer to this
question - because each instance writes some magic number a5a5a5a5 to its
code. Ok, so then the answer becomes - why does it do that?

Any ideas?

Regards,
Tigran


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