Re: x86: clean up non-smp usage of cpu maps

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 23:04:27 EST


On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:21:50 -0700 Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:36:55 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> x86: clean up non-smp usage of cpu maps
> >>
> >> Cleanup references to the early cpu maps for the non-SMP configuration
> >> and remove some functions called for SMP configurations only.
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> index 1179aa0..dc79409 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> >> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> >> #include <asm/setup.h>
> >> #include <asm/topology.h>
> >>
> >> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
> >> +#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> >
> > This implies that we can have
> >
> > CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA && !CONFIG_SMP
> >
> > which a) appears to be true and b) seems rather dumb?
>
> Yeah, I kind of picked that up in a code merge and didn't really look at it
> too closely. I should have checked the Kconfig file to make sure that it
> couldn't inadvertently get set if SMP is not set.

config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
def_bool X86_64 || (X86_SMP && !X86_VOYAGER)

it _can_ get set at present on x86_64, which I assume is incorrect.
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