Re: [PATCH] cpumask fallout: Initialize irq_default_affinity earlier.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, David Daney wrote:
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +	init_irq_default_affinity();
> +#endif

Don't do this. It's horrible. It makes the code much harder to read.

What's so wrong with initializing affinity on UP? It's still conceptually 
a fine thing to do, although it's obviously trivially a no-op.

Also, since it's only used in "handle.c", why not just move it there? 
Then, just make it static, and make it a no-op for the non-SMP case. Ok?

In fact, I think it already is a no-op in the UP case, and you can 
literally just do

	static inline void __init init_irq_default_affinity(void)
	{
	 	alloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_KERNEL);
	 	cpumask_setall(irq_default_affinity);
	}

and be done with it. I think it should all compile away to nothing if 
CONFIG_SMP isn't set.

			Linus