Re: [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 13:42:52 EST
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
>
> One would think so, but I recall not all archs did that. Alpha for
> example sets up cpu_possible_map in smp_prepare_cpus(). It however
> makes more sense to fix the arch then use NR_CPUS, IMO.
Ehh? alpha does it in setup_smp(), which in turn is called very early from
setup_arch().
Were you perhaps thinking of something else? Or am I just going blind and
confused?
Linus
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