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Message-ID: <23825.1263316641@localhost>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:17:21 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
"ananth@...ibm.com" <ananth@...ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86: use dmi check to treat disabled cpus as hotplug cpus.
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:26:22 PST, Linus Torvalds said:
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'll bite - how do you build an X86-64 kernel that doesn't have
> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU selected? Try as I might, even if I have PM_SLEEP=n,
> > PM_SLEEP_SMP insists on being set, and then selecting HOTPLUG_SMP.
>
> If that is true, then there is some bug in the kconfig parser.
> PM_SLEEP_SMP depends on PM_SLEEP, so with PM_SLEEP=n it should never be
> set.
So now I go back and check, and it *was* possible to get a PM_SLEEP_SMP=n.
Apparently in my previous attempts, I tried turning stuff off and PM_SLEEP_SMP
stayed on just like this time as long as I was puttering around in menuconfig.
But turning it off, *exiting menuconfig*, and then re-starting menuconfig made
it work. Weird. It seems like if something does a 'select' on something
that isn't a visible symbol, and the symbol gets toggled, the selects
aren't redriven - and since it's not a visible symbol, you can't toggle it
yourself. But saving and restarting menuconfig forces a refresh and things
start acting right. Adding Roman and the kbuild list to the cc:
And turning off PM_SLEEP and HOTPLUG_CPU ended up saving a chunk of memory:
Before:
% size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
8964445 1377200 6094320 16435965 facafd vmlinux
After:
% size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
8889523 1378768 6089648 16357939 f99a33 vmlinux
Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped
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