From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
ashok.raj@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/*: Present cpus or Possible cpus
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 15:42:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503134210.GA7694@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070502185235.GA6859@in.ibm.com>
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:22:35AM +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:37:57AM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > Hi Gautham-
> >
> > I believe that the powerpc behavior was established before
> > cpu_present_map was introduced.
>
> Ok. I guess the same is the reason with a few other architectures like
> s390.
No, the reason for s390 is that we don't get any notification if
a new cpu gets attached, if running under z/VM (a hypervisor).
But since the cpuX/online attribute must exist to bring a cpu
online, the idea was to create the directories for all possible
cpus and if somebody tries to online a cpu the code will scan
for present and unused cpus and uses the first one...
Kind of stupid, but works.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 11:00 /sys/devices/system/cpu/*: Present cpus or Possible cpus Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-02 16:37 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-05-02 18:52 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-03 13:42 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
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