Re: x86: clean up non-smp usage of cpu maps

From: Mike Travis
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 22:22:17 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:36:55 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> x86: clean up non-smp usage of cpu maps
>>
>> Cleanup references to the early cpu maps for the non-SMP configuration
>> and remove some functions called for SMP configurations only.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> index 1179aa0..dc79409 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>> #include <asm/setup.h>
>> #include <asm/topology.h>
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
>
> This implies that we can have
>
> CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA && !CONFIG_SMP
>
> which a) appears to be true and b) seems rather dumb?

Yeah, I kind of picked that up in a code merge and didn't really look at it
too closely. I should have checked the Kconfig file to make sure that it
couldn't inadvertently get set if SMP is not set.

Thanks,
Mike
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