Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpumask: centralize cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Nov 19 2008 - 13:18:26 EST


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:07:16AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> diff -r c8ab7f6fc5e8 kernel/cpu.c
> --- a/kernel/cpu.c Fri Oct 31 10:48:30 2008 +1100
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c Fri Oct 31 11:22:29 2008 +1100
> @@ -24,19 +24,20 @@ cpumask_t cpu_present_map __read_mostly;
> cpumask_t cpu_present_map __read_mostly;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_present_map);
>
> -#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> -
> /*
> * Represents all cpu's that are currently online.
> */
> -cpumask_t cpu_online_map __read_mostly = CPU_MASK_ALL;
> +cpumask_t cpu_online_map __read_mostly;

Just a question: in the uniprocessor case, does this mean that
cpu_online_map becomes zero or do we mark cpu0 as online somewhere?
I couldn't see it in this patch.

I'm just wondering from a review point of view whether this change
of initialization could have undesirable side effects.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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