Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: KEXEC became SMP-only

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 15:54:21 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:23:24PM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> This gets rid of both the code duplication and makes it somewhat more
> obvious what is going on - plus it is easy to extend to other functions,
> and as a bonus feature, you don't need to change any code in other
> subarchitectures if you need to add a new hook.

ppc has 'struct machdep_calls' (asm-powerpc/machdep.h) which serves
the same purpose, and it's indeed a clean way of doing this sort of
thing.

Cheers,
Muli
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