linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpumask: use new cpus

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Message-Id: <20080410074904.2734e52f.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:49:04 -0500
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	"Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@...glemail.com>
Cc:	travis@....com, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpumask: use new cpus_scnprintf function v3

Bert, responding to Mike:
> >  It's printing the number of cpus on a node, so the number of nodes is not
> >  important, it's how many cpus can fit on the head of a node... ;-)
> Ahh, the old code was Just Plain Wrong.

Looks like the code originally had NR_CPUS, and that was changed to
MAX_NUMNODES, perhaps as unintended collateral damage from some
x86_64 node SLIT changes done in the patch:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc3/2.6.10-rc3-mm1/broken-out/x86_64-add-x86_64-support-for-jack-steiners-slit-sysfs.patch

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