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

[Yinghai Lu]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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?

Rusty polished this patch a little bit and put the updated one in his tree.
so you may need to pick up the updated one.

YH
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