Re: [patch 03/10] s390: earlier initialization of cpu_possible_map

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:33:37PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Initiliazing of cpu_possible_map was done in smp_prepare_cpus which is
> way too late. Therefore assign a static value to cpu_possible_map, since
> we don't have access to max_cpus in setup_arch.

With this and Ivan's alpha fix, it should now be safe to use
for_each_cpu() in vfs_caches_init() path as done by the merged
patch from Eric. I have done a quick check and couldn't find
any other late initialization of cpu_possible_map, but arch
maintainers probably can say for sure.

Thanks
Dipankar
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