Re: [git pull] cpus4096 fixes

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Monday 28 July 2008 05:06:01 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Linus,
>
> Please pull the latest cpus4096-fixes git tree from:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> cpus4096
>
> this fixes the cpumask_of_cpu API fallout described here:
>
>    http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/23/76
>
> ... and the fix is wider than i'd like it to be, so close to -rc1

Sorry, it's wider because you pushed the last stupid Mike patch.  Over my 
(obviously too-polite) objections.  Most of this is reverting that, just 
without actually admitting it.

> - but 
> it's the cleanest one and it has Rusty's ack as well.

Not really.  As authored, I intended it as a bandaid for systems with small 
CPU numbers.  Mike made it always on (tho __initdata on large x86 systems), 
which IMHO is insane (2MB of initdata?).

Mike: I now think the right long-term answer is Linus' dense cpumap idea + a 
convenience allocator for cpumasks.  We sweep the kernel for all on-stack 
vars and replace them with one or the other.  Thoughts?

Rusty.