From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757494AbZA2WnP (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:43:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753306AbZA2Wm4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:42:56 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:60977 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751573AbZA2Wmz (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:42:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:42:36 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: allow 8 more cpus could be used Message-ID: <20090129224236.GD1465@elte.hu> References: <49822B1D.9070708@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49822B1D.9070708@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Yinghai Lu wrote: > Impact: fix left out MARCO > > X86_PC will be always enabled. so need to check if we have bigsmp > support built in before cut off more than 8 cpus. ah, that's a leftover reference to X86_PC. It can now be removed, together with the Kconfig X86_PC option. > -#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PC) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32) > +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PC) && !defined(CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP) > if (def_to_bigsmp && nr_cpu_ids > 8) { > unsigned int cpu; > unsigned nr; Could you please send a patch that removes both X86_PC and X86_BIGSMP - and removes the above cutoff code too, so that it will be built-in all the time? Ingo