Re: [PATCH] MIPS: nofpu and nodsp only affect CPU0

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:19:59PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> > The "nofpu" and "nodsp" kernel command line options currently do not
> > affect CPUs that are brought online later in the boot process or
> > hotplugged at runtime.  It is desirable to apply the nofpu/nodsp options
> > to all CPUs in the system, so that surprising results are not seen when
> > a process migrates from one CPU to another.
> 
> I like this patch; this solution is also cleaner than iterating over the
> cpu data array.  However as it constitutes a change in established kernel
> behaviour I prefer to queue this patch for 2.6.35 rather than applying it
> immediately.

I've moved definitions of mips_fpu_disabled, fpu_disable, mips_dsp_disabled
and dsp_disable from setup.c to cpu-probe.c to allow mips_fpu_disabled and
mips_dsp_disabled to become static.

  Ralf
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