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SubjectRe: [patch 2/4] CPU hot-plug support for x86_64
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:38:16PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:16:24PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> > > Experimental CPU hotplug patch for x86_64
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > - Most of init code that needs to be there for hotplug marked now as __devinit
> > > (Didn't use cpuinit, simply because the main framework code in kernel
> > > is not the same way, just trying to be consistent)
> >
> > I dont like that. Can you keep it as __cpuinit please? e.g.
> > if cpuhot plug turns out to be a lot of code we could later
> > mark it free when we detect at boot the system does not support
> > cpu hotplug. With devinit that is pretty much impossible these days.
> >
> > Also it is better for documentation purposes.
>
> If its for documentation, then its ok, the reason i thought it will
> be dead code/documentation soon is since 90% of the hotplug code is
> generic kernel code, which is not under __cpuinit, just some pieces of
> x86_64 would alone exist this way, and will not serve real purpose very soon.

I would hope these other pieces get converted over. I will probably
look into that soon if nobody beats me.

-Andi
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