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From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED] sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset  configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:15:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTil7QBQOsWIWQOGOaAz76eDqx9clZ1CfL2MR5484@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1FD1D0.4060803@kernel.org>

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> I see.  I think the right solution is removing __cpuexit but it's kind
> of silly to have different rules on different architectures.  On x86,
> __cpuexit currently means "you can drop it if you're not gonna be
> removing cpus after system boot"; IOW, __cpuexit is strict subset of
> __cpuinit.  If you define it as "don't include it in the text at all
> if cpus are not gonna be removed", it actually forces you to carry
> more text in the running system.  Is there any reason ia64 drops them
> during linking?

The history is that __exit functions are those that are called on module
unload.  When a driver is built-in to the kernel, it can obviously never
be unloaded. Therefore the __exit code must just be bloat for the built-in
case.

A system built with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n meets the requirement
that cpus will not be removed after system boot. So why do I need to
include the __cpuexit code that should only be used to remove cpus?

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-04 13:27 [GIT PULL] sched/core: scheduler patches for cmwq Tejun Heo
2010-06-08 19:46 ` [PATCH UPDATED] sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining Tejun Heo
2010-06-21 18:28   ` Tony Luck
2010-06-21 20:55     ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-21 21:15       ` Tony Luck [this message]
2010-06-21 21:20         ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-21 21:46           ` Tony Luck
2010-06-21 22:02             ` Tejun Heo

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