From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Get rid of cpuinit?
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:12:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130520231203.GA21682@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519AA53F.1020107@zytor.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:35:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We have gotten rid of devinit markup. A recent patch of Linus' makes me
> wonder if we similarly should get rid of cpuinit markup?
>
> Just as with devices, the CPU hotplug machinery has been leveraged to
> support a number of pieces of functionality such as suspend, which means
> that on anything but the most embedded systems this functionality is
> likely needed anyway.
>
> On x86-64, for an "allyesconfig" build, the total amount of space in all
> the .cpu* sections combined is 100K.
No objection from me on removing it, it just causes problems from what I
can tell.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-20 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 22:35 Get rid of cpuinit? H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-20 23:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-05-28 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-12 0:31 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-06-12 0:56 ` Greg KH
2013-06-20 17:46 ` Status of __cpuinit removal Paul Gortmaker
2013-06-21 1:32 ` Greg KH
2013-06-23 10:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-22 21:04 ` Get rid of cpuinit? Sam Ravnborg
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