Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030587AbWBHQk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:40:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030589AbWBHQk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:40:29 -0500 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:51600 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030587AbWBHQk2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:40:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:09:43 +0530 From: Dipankar Sarma To: Heiko Carstens Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] s390: earlier initialization of cpu_possible_map Message-ID: <20060208163943.GA24115@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com References: <20060208123337.GD1656@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060208123337.GD1656@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 862 Lines: 20 On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:33:37PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > From: Heiko Carstens > > Initiliazing of cpu_possible_map was done in smp_prepare_cpus which is > way too late. Therefore assign a static value to cpu_possible_map, since > we don't have access to max_cpus in setup_arch. With this and Ivan's alpha fix, it should now be safe to use for_each_cpu() in vfs_caches_init() path as done by the merged patch from Eric. I have done a quick check and couldn't find any other late initialization of cpu_possible_map, but arch maintainers probably can say for sure. Thanks Dipankar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/