Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:58:45 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: allow to call text_poke_bp during boot
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:33:50 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:


> > 	/* Ideally we would like to run on zero CPUS! */
> > 	if (num_online_cpus() < 2)
> 
> To be really safe, shouldn't you use complex numbers?  Just in case
> you end up running on a system with 5i-3 CPUs or something.  ;-)
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul

I did think about that, but I didn't know the algorithm to test such a
case, which is why I added you to the Cc. Hoping you would come up with
a better conditional.

-- Steve

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