Re: [PATCH 01/27] smpboot: Provide a generic method to bootsecondary processors

[Yong Zhang]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 04:52:23PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> In short, to avoid breaking build on x86.
> We wanted to follow the x86 convention of having static inline functions in
> arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h and use the smp_ops structure to route the calls
> to x86 or xen as appropriate (see patch 4 in this series).
> 
> But __weak definitions interfere with that and break the build. Hence, we
> followed what Linus suggested doing in a similar context:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/187

Good to know that, thanks for your explanation.

Yong
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