Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:18:40 +0800 | From | Yong Zhang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/27] smpboot: Provide a generic method to boot secondary processors |
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 04:52:23PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > In short, to avoid breaking build on x86. > We wanted to follow the x86 convention of having static inline functions in > arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h and use the smp_ops structure to route the calls > to x86 or xen as appropriate (see patch 4 in this series). > > But __weak definitions interfere with that and break the build. Hence, we > followed what Linus suggested doing in a similar context: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/187
Good to know that, thanks for your explanation.
Yong
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