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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] s390: earlier initialization of cpu_possible_map
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:09:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060208163943.GA24115@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060208123337.GD1656@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:33:37PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> 
> Initiliazing of cpu_possible_map was done in smp_prepare_cpus which is
> way too late. Therefore assign a static value to cpu_possible_map, since
> we don't have access to max_cpus in setup_arch.

With this and Ivan's alpha fix, it should now be safe to use
for_each_cpu() in vfs_caches_init() path as done by the merged
patch from Eric. I have done a quick check and couldn't find
any other late initialization of cpu_possible_map, but arch
maintainers probably can say for sure.

Thanks
Dipankar

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08 12:33 [patch 03/10] s390: earlier initialization of cpu_possible_map Heiko Carstens
2006-02-08 16:39 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]

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