Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] linux: don't bring up CPUs that can never be used

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/8/06 3:05 pm, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think considering cpu_possible_map/cpu_present_map would be safer
> here,
> which is why I made the loop run over cpu_present_map. __cpu_up
> wouldn't
> be sufficient for setting this up then. I am, however, not sure whether
> these
> maps ever get accessed for non-online CPUs, so your suggestion might
> well
> work.

x86_64 seems to leave the setup of those maps until the CPU has started
running, but before setting cpu_online_map. So it should be fine for us to
do the same and so delete the loop. I'll apply it separately from your patch
though.

 -- Keir
 



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