From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752819Ab1ACSaN (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:30:13 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46738 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752034Ab1ACSaL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:30:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4D22159C.6080402@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:29:48 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch in LAPIC initialization References: <4D21F338020000780002A112@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4D21F338020000780002A112@vpn.id2.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/03/2011 07:03 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > Doing things conditionally upon spm_processor_id() being zero is > generally a bad idea, as this means CPU 0 cannot be offlined and > brought back online later again. While there may be other places where > this is done, I think adding more of those should be avoided so that > some day SMP really becomes "symmetrical". > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich The description doesn't really match the subject line... -hpa