Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/smpboot: Fix announce_cpu() to printk() thelast "OK" properly

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Sep 27 2013 - 08:49:09 EST


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:51:15AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> That message was cool and interesting back in the days when we wrote
> lockdep ('hey, look ma, it really works!!'), but there hasn't been
> any breakage in that area for a long time and it definitely does not
> deserve one line of log spam per CPU! Especially if it messes up such
> a nice CPU bootup table.

Right. The comment in alternatives_enable_smp() talks about older
binutils and could be a useful info if we encounter the issue again. Should I
keep it or are we talking really old, i.e.

obsolete-we-will-never-use-them-anywhere-and-if-someone-does-we-dont-care

binutils?

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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