Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:42:01 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
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       the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: x86: cap iomem_resource to addressable physical memory
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On Thu 2009-06-11 13:46:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > 
> > do we need do that on every cpu?
> > 
> > looks like we could do that in identify_boot_cpu.
> > 
> 
> What if the CPUs are heterogenous?  It's obviously a suboptimal
> situation, but it doesn't seem like something we can rely on.

Is it ok if that changes during runtime? What if someone hotplugs
heterogenous cpu? I'd say basing it on boot cpu seems simplest.
									Pavel

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