Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:19:38 -0700 | From | Ashok Raj <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] x86_64: Change init sections for CPU hotplug support |
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 02:14:28PM -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Ashok Raj wrote: > > > This patch adds __cpuinit and __cpuinitdata sections that need to exist > > past boot to support cpu hotplug. > > > > Caveat: This is done *only* for EM64T CPU Hotplug support, on request from > > Andi Kleen. Much of the generic hotplug code in kernel, and none of the > > other archs that support CPU hotplug today, i386, ia64, ppc64, s390 and > > parisc dont mark sections with __cpuinit, but only mark them as __devinit, > > and __devinitdata. > > > > If someone is motivated to change generic code, we need to make sure all > > existing hotplug code does not break, on other arch's that dont use > > __cpuinit, and __cpudevinit. > > I'll do i386. >
The generic kernel pieces also need to be converted, which is probably the bigger chunk of code that could have been marked __cpuinit in cases where hotplug is not supported.
I can do the ia64 pieces...
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