linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: show cpuinfo only for online CPUs

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Message-ID: <20071101183537.GD5568@alberich.amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:35:37 +0100
From:	"Andreas Herrmann3" <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
To:	"Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <gcosta@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, travis@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: show cpuinfo only for online CPUs

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:35:43PM +0100, Andreas Herrmann3 wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:12:25PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> > So it could even work, but as accident. Unless I'm wrong about it, I'd
> > prefer to see an explicit attribution of cpu_index = 0 somewhere for the
> > boot cpu.
> 
> Hmm, will look at this as well.

BTW, isn't it zero initialized anyway?
So, no need to explicitely set cpuinfo->cpu_index=0 for the boot cpu.


Regards,

Andreas

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