From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Russ Weight" <rweight@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Scalable CPU bitmasks
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:28:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001e01c1cecc$50c347f0$010411ac@local> (raw)
>
>
> NOTE: The cpumap_to_ulong() and cpumap_ulong_to_cpumap() interfaces
> are provided specifically for migration. In their current
> form, they call BUG() if NR_CPUS is defined to be greater
> than the bit-size of (unsigned long).
Why BUG? NR_CPUS is known at compile time, is there a reason why you
can't use a call to an undefined function in order to get a link time
error message? (like __bad_udelay in linux/asm-i386/udelay.h)
--
Manfred
next reply other threads:[~2002-03-18 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-18 22:28 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-03-18 22:42 ` [PATCH] Scalable CPU bitmasks Tim Hockin
2002-03-18 22:44 ` Russ Weight
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-18 22:07 Russ Weight
2002-03-19 11:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-03-19 7:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-20 23:04 ` Russ Weight
2002-01-30 0:32 Russ Weight
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