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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:28:52 +0530
From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-cpu areas
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> +static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long size, i;
> +	char *ptr;
> +	/* Created by linker magic */
> +	extern char __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
> +
> +	/* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
> +	size = ALIGN(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
> +	ptr = alloc_bootmem(size * NR_CPUS);

Would it be possible to free up NR_CPUS - smp_num_cpus worth of memory 
after smp_init? .... 

Regards,
Kiran

-- 
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore.