Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: fix and cleanup
> 
> setup_force_cpu_cap() only have one user xen
> but it should not reuse cleared_cpu_cpus. it will have problem
> for smp.
> 
> need to have cpu_cpus_set array too.
> also need to setup handling before all cpus cap AND
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |    4 ++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h  |    3 ++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c      |   17 ++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Rusty, you'll carry this patch in your linux-2.6-boot-params.git tree, 
right? Merging this in the x86 tree would just needlessly complicate your 
logistics, right?

	Ingo
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