linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpumask: centralize cpu_online_map and cpu_possible

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:17:44 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	ink@...assic.park.msu.ru, starvik@...s.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
	takata@...ux-m32r.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	grundler@...isc-linux.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, lethal@...ux-sh.org, wli@...omorphy.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, jdike@...toit.com, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpumask: centralize cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:07:16AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> diff -r c8ab7f6fc5e8 kernel/cpu.c
> --- a/kernel/cpu.c	Fri Oct 31 10:48:30 2008 +1100
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c	Fri Oct 31 11:22:29 2008 +1100
> @@ -24,19 +24,20 @@ cpumask_t cpu_present_map __read_mostly;
>  cpumask_t cpu_present_map __read_mostly;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_present_map);
>  
> -#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> -
>  /*
>   * Represents all cpu's that are currently online.
>   */
> -cpumask_t cpu_online_map __read_mostly = CPU_MASK_ALL;
> +cpumask_t cpu_online_map __read_mostly;

Just a question: in the uniprocessor case, does this mean that
cpu_online_map becomes zero or do we mark cpu0 as online somewhere?
I couldn't see it in this patch.

I'm just wondering from a review point of view whether this change
of initialization could have undesirable side effects.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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