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SubjectRe: [patch 1/5] x86_64: Change init sections for CPU hotplug support
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.

Thanks,
Zwane

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