Re: [PATCH] x86: show cpuinfo only for online CPUs

Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-01T18:44:48Z

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Andreas Herrmann3 escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:35:43PM +0100, Andreas Herrmann3 wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:12:25PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
>>> So it could even work, but as accident. Unless I'm wrong about it, I'd
>>> prefer to see an explicit attribution of cpu_index = 0 somewhere for the
>>> boot cpu.
>> Hmm, will look at this as well.
>
> BTW, isn't it zero initialized anyway?
> So, no need to explicitely set cpuinfo->cpu_index=0 for the boot cpu.

Well, it should be, but as far as I know it is not exactly a guarantee
given by all compilers. So it should be safer to do it explicitly, with
no prejudice. Unless it's really guaranteed. If it is, yeah, no need.
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