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SubjectRe: [PATCH x86] [15/16] Force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM without HOTPLUG_CPU
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:58:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > It seems the correct solution would be not to hijack __cpuinit
> > (as your patch does), but to create a new annotation.
>
> The rationale is that after suspend the CPU has to be reinitialized.
> That is because it is essentially like a reboot. All the previous
> CPU state is gone.
>...

But your patch does:

+config PM_CPUINIT
+ bool
+ depends on PM
+ default y

As an example, even plain ACPI support without any suspend support in
the kernel at all requires CONFIG_PM and therefore forces all __cpuinit
code to be non-__init after your patch.

And if the dependency was corrected to PM_SLEEP it will still make
the UP kernel use more memory since we currently have __cpuinit code
that gets discarded after boot but suspend/resume is apparently working.

Plus my other point that it seems to be wrong to do whatever change only
for x86.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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