Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 May 2013 16:12:03 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Get rid of cpuinit? |
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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:35:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > We have gotten rid of devinit markup. A recent patch of Linus' makes me > wonder if we similarly should get rid of cpuinit markup? > > Just as with devices, the CPU hotplug machinery has been leveraged to > support a number of pieces of functionality such as suspend, which means > that on anything but the most embedded systems this functionality is > likely needed anyway. > > On x86-64, for an "allyesconfig" build, the total amount of space in all > the .cpu* sections combined is 100K.
No objection from me on removing it, it just causes problems from what I can tell.
thanks,
greg k-h
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