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From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
To: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] Update ibm,client-architecture call field based on device tree
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:48:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100202034832.GD12389@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265064662.5391.19.camel@jschopp-laptop>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:51:02PM -0600, Joel Schopp wrote:

>  static void __init prom_send_capabilities(void)
>  {
>  	ihandle elfloader, root;
>  	prom_arg_t ret;
> +	u32 *cores;
>  
>  	root = call_prom("open", 1, 1, ADDR("/"));
>  	if (root != 0) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If you add to the struct, please be sure the 100 index
> +		 * didn't change.  The BUILD_BUG_ON is a reminder.
> +		 */
> +		cores = (u32 *) &ibm_architecture_vec[100];
> +		if(*cores != NR_CPUS)
> +			prom_printf("client-architecture structure corrupted\n");
> +		*cores = (NR_CPUS / prom_smt_way());
> +		prom_printf("setting client-architecture cores to %x\n", *cores);

I don't know if I'm painting a bike shed of if this is a real concern, but if
*cores isn't NR_CPUS shouldn't we do nothing rather then clobbering it?

Yours Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-02  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-14 20:38 [PATCH 0/2] Add max CPU nodes field to ibm,client-architecture call Joel Schopp
2010-01-14 20:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add static fields " Joel Schopp
2010-01-14 23:01   ` Joel Schopp
2010-01-15  2:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-15  2:52       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-02-01 22:50     ` [PATCHv2 " Joel Schopp
2010-01-14 20:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] Update ibm,client-architecture call field based on device tree Joel Schopp
2010-01-15  2:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-02-01 22:51   ` [PATCHv2 " Joel Schopp
2010-02-02  3:48     ` Tony Breeds [this message]
2010-02-02 18:37       ` Joel Schopp
2010-02-04  3:27         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-02-01 22:50 ` [PATCHv2 0/2] Add max CPU nodes field to ibm,client-architecture call Joel Schopp

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