Messages in this thread | | | Date | 23 May 2005 19:24:24 +0200 | Date | Mon, 23 May 2005 19:24:24 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/4] CPU hot-plug support for x86_64 |
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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.
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