From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PPC64] Tweaks to ppc64 cpu sysfs information
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:58:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101679091.25347.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041126035959.GK11370@zax>
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 14:59 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Andrew, please apply:
>
> Currently the ppc64 sysfs code registers an entry for each possible
> cpu in sysfs, rather than just online cpus. That makes sense, since
> the sysfs entries are needed to control onlining of the cpus.
> However, this is done even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set, or if it
> is not a hotplug capable (DLPAR) machine, which is a bit misleading.
> Secondly it also registers all the other sysfs entries (mostly
> performance monitoring controls) on all possible cpus, although they
> are quite meaningless on non-online cpus.
Surely if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, then online == possible? If not, it
should be. That would solve part of the problem.
Rusty.
--
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-28 21:58 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-26 3:59 David Gibson
2004-11-28 21:58 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-11-29 0:50 ` David Gibson
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