Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:14:28 -0600 (MDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] x86_64: Change init sections for CPU hotplug support |
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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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