From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261280AbVFBVEj (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261304AbVFBVC6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:02:58 -0400 Received: from fsmlabs.com ([168.103.115.128]:48563 "EHLO fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261306AbVFBULJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:11:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:14:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Ashok Raj cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, Rusty Russell , Srivattsa Vaddagiri Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] x86_64: Change init sections for CPU hotplug support In-Reply-To: <20050602130111.694382000@araj-em64t> Message-ID: References: <20050602125754.993470000@araj-em64t> <20050602130111.694382000@araj-em64t> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Ashok Raj wrote: > This patch adds __cpuinit and __cpuinitdata sections that need to exist > past boot to support cpu hotplug. > > Caveat: This is done *only* for EM64T CPU Hotplug support, on request from > Andi Kleen. Much of the generic hotplug code in kernel, and none of the > other archs that support CPU hotplug today, i386, ia64, ppc64, s390 and > parisc dont mark sections with __cpuinit, but only mark them as __devinit, > and __devinitdata. > > If someone is motivated to change generic code, we need to make sure all > existing hotplug code does not break, on other arch's that dont use > __cpuinit, and __cpudevinit. I'll do i386. Thanks, Zwane