Is patches/linux-2.6.18/xen-hotplug.patch still necessary?

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>]

   Is the patch below, that's currently in the Xen tree, still
necessary?  The original commit comment indicates this is so things like
'top' don't get upset during CPU hotplugs.  But should that be handled
by the hotplug infrastructure in the kernel (or top itself)?  IMHO, this
breaks top more than fixes it.  Now when I try to look at individual
processor statistics, I see quite a few lines of zeros (2 online CPUs,
16 possible CPUs).  AFAICT, this also breaks all of the NPROCESSORS
queries for sysconf.  Can we dump it?  Thanks,

	Alex


diff -pruN ../orig-linux-2.6.18/fs/proc/proc_misc.c ./fs/proc/proc_misc.c
--- ../orig-linux-2.6.18/fs/proc/proc_misc.c    2006-09-20 04:42:06.000000000 +0100
+++ ./fs/proc/proc_misc.c       2007-01-12 18:18:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static int show_stat(struct seq_file *p,
                (unsigned long long)cputime64_to_clock_t(irq),
                (unsigned long long)cputime64_to_clock_t(softirq),
                (unsigned long long)cputime64_to_clock_t(steal));
-       for_each_online_cpu(i) {
+       for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 
                /* Copy values here to work around gcc-2.95.3, gcc-2.96 */
                user = kstat_cpu(i).cpustat.user;


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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.