Re: [rfc 01/45] ACPI: Avoid references to impossible processors.

2007-11-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Convert one loop to NR_CPUS to use the cpu_possible map instead. > > > > I'm just wondering how broken this is. Is there any assumption that > there is no holes in the online cpu map in this code ? Yeah, I saw only one loop in there and so I thi

Re: [rfc 01/45] ACPI: Avoid references to impossible processors.

2007-11-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > I would suggest to separate that one and fast-track it, possibly even for > 2.6.24 I already did. Andrew has the patch in his tree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [rfc 01/45] ACPI: Avoid references to impossible processors.

2007-11-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 02:11:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ACPI uses NR_CPUS in various loops and in some it accesses per cpu > data of processors that are not present(!) and that will never be present. > The pointers to per cpu data are typically not initialized for processors > that are not

Re: [rfc 01/45] ACPI: Avoid references to impossible processors.

2007-11-20 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ACPI uses NR_CPUS in various loops and in some it accesses per cpu > data of processors that are not present(!) and that will never be present. > The pointers to per cpu data are typically not initialized for processors > that are not present. So we