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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/14] smp: fix cpu_possible_map initialization
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:36:34 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904151136.34934.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414135348.874771700@de.ibm.com>

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:23:37 pm Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> 
> The cpu_possible_map by default is initialized with all ones in s390.
> If the kernel paramert possible_cpus=<x> is passed the cpu_possible_map
> is supposed to have x bits set.
> However the current code just sets the x bits without clearing the NR_CPUS
> bits that were already set. So we end up with an unchanged map that has
> all bits set.
> To fix this just clear the map before setting any new bits.

You're right; I created this patch back before I did the
CONFIG_INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE patch.

It'd be nice to wean S390 off CONFIG_INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE, then there'd
only be two (parisc and m32r).  But it's a minor wart.

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 13:53 [patch 00/14] s390 patches for 2.6.30-rc1 Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 01/14] s390: move machine flags to lowcore Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 02/14] wire up preadv/pwritev system calls Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 03/14] call nmi_enter/nmi_exit on machine checks Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 04/14] stp synchronization retry timer Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 05/14] extend virtual timer interface by mod_virt_timer_periodic Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 06/14] appldata: Use new mod_virt_timer_periodic() function Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 07/14] qdio: remove dead timeout handler Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 08/14] dasd: Use the new async framework for autoonlining Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 09/14] dasd: fix idaw boundary checking for track based ccw Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 10/14] smp: fix cpu_possible_map initialization Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-15  2:06   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 11/14] fix idle time accounting Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 12/14] cpu hotplug and accounting values Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 13/14] add read_persistent_clock Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-14 13:53 ` [patch 14/14] boot cputime accounting Martin Schwidefsky

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