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From: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:23:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation
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Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:30:17AM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
>> Russ Anderson wrote:
>>> The MCA code allocates bootmem memory for NR_CPUS, regardless
>>> of how many cpus the system actually has.
>> So... how about using num_possible_cpus() instead?
> 
> num_possible_cpus() is not initialized until after this code is run for
> the first time.

I grant you.
Then, I suppose we need a CPU_UP_PREPARE callback to allocate memory
before hot-added CPU enters cpu_init().

Thanks,
H.Seto