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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, rusty@rustycorp.com.au,
	vatsa@in.ibm.com, shaohua.li@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] CPU Hotplug support for X86_64
Date: 24 May 2005 14:27:00 +0200
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:27:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050524122700.GC86182@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050524081304.805933000@csdlinux-2.jf.intel.com>

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:11:16AM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -62,9 +62,12 @@
>  /* Number of siblings per CPU package */
>  int smp_num_siblings = 1;
>  /* Package ID of each logical CPU */
> -u8 phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
> -u8 cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
> +u8 phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned = 
> +	{ [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };

Why this change?

>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(phys_proc_id);
> +
> +u8 cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned = 
> +	{ [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };

And that one?

It does not seem related to CPUhotplug. May as a separate patch,
but in this case the "per cpu readonly" section C.Lameter recently
added should be used for these which are near always read-only
(I hope the section made it into -mm* now)


-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-24 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-24  8:11 [patch 0/4] CPU Hotplug support for X86_64 Ashok Raj
2005-05-24  8:11 ` [patch 1/4] " Ashok Raj
2005-05-24 12:15   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-24 15:51     ` Ashok Raj
2005-05-24 18:18       ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-24  8:11 ` [patch 2/4] " Ashok Raj
2005-05-24 12:24   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-24  8:11 ` [patch 3/4] " Ashok Raj
2005-05-24 12:27   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-05-24  8:11 ` [patch 4/4] " Ashok Raj
2005-05-24 12:28   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-24  9:31 ` [patch 0/4] " Shaohua Li
2005-05-25 22:16   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-05-26  0:11     ` Ashok Raj
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-24  7:27 Ashok Raj
2005-05-24  7:27 ` [patch 3/4] " Ashok Raj

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