On Thu, 2025-06-26 at 10:59 -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote: > Since the race is related to stop_this_cpu() it doesn't affect it. But it does > mean that the bring up CPU may not flush the cache if takes a kdump kexec before > the per-cpu var is set? Of course the existing logic doesn't trigger until > cpuinfo_x86 is populated. What is the consequence? Oh, doh! This stuff all happens before kdump could load. Right?