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Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:27:54 +0900
From:	Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus@...inux.co.jp>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	nanhai.zou@...el.com, fastboot@...ts.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] kexec: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n compilation (ia64)

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com> wrote:
> > On 2/2/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > Magnus Damm <magnus@...inux.co.jp> wrote:
> > >
> > > > kexec: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n compilation (ia64)
> > > >
> > > > This patch makes it possible to compile kexec for ia64 without SMP support.
> > > > --- 0002/arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> > > > +++ work/arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c     2007-02-01 12:35:46.000000000 +0900
> > > > @@ -70,12 +70,14 @@ void machine_kexec_cleanup(struct kimage
> > > >
> > > >  void machine_shutdown(void)
> > > >  {
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > > >       int cpu;
> > > >
> > > >       for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > > >               if (cpu != smp_processor_id())
> > > >                       cpu_down(cpu);
> > > >       }
> > > > +#endif
> > > >       kexec_disable_iosapic();
> > > >  }
> > >
> > > hm.  I suspect this one should have been #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU?
> 
> Re-reading this I assume you mean #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
> 
> I would be happy to resend a new updated version of the patch, but I
> wonder if it may be better to fail miserably during the build than
> fail silently in the case of CONFIG_SMP=y but CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n.

There used to be alternate code for the CONFIG_SMP +
!CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, but this was removed because it was determined to
be flakey and not maintainable (I can dig up the threads if you want).
I think that this means that if we have CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_SMP then
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required. I think this is expressable in Kconfig
somehow.

-- 
Horms
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