From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:50:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation Message-Id: <47A92E73.6050504@jp.fujitsu.com> List-Id: References: <20080205193232.GA8834@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080205193232.GA8834@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > Then, I suppose we need a CPU_UP_PREPARE callback to allocate memory > before hot-added CPU enters cpu_init(). Ah, we cannot allocate bootmem later, so it would be better to make the callback to return NOTIFY_BAD if (!__per_cpu_mca[hcpu]). Thanks, H.Seto