From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:55:24 +0000
Subject: percpu data for non-existant cpus
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It was neccessary in 2.4 to allocate cpu_data areas for
non-existent cpus. I forget where, but some generic
initialization code expected to be able to reference cpu_data 
for all cpus up to NR_CPUS.

Does 2.6 have the same requirement or can I allocate cpu_data
areas only for cpus that exist or might exist (cpu_possible()).


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Thanks

Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com)          651-683-5302
Principal Engineer                      SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.