On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 07:01:49PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:59:46AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:32:03PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:12:32AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 05:42:34PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > > > Do we really need a global variable that does only hold the
> value of
> > > > > > NR_CPUS?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes.
> > > > >
> > > > > NR_CPUS = compile time
> > > > > maxcpus = boot command line at runtime.
> > > >
> > > > If this is how is was expected to work - it isn't exactly what is
> > > > currently implemented.
> > >
> > > It's ugly, as its setting the same thing in two different places, but
> > > I don't see any obvious reason why it won't work.
> > >...
> >
> > I might be too dumb, but where are the mpparse.c maxcpus variables ever
> > set to any value different from NR_CPUS?
>
> arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:parse_cmdline_early()
>
> ...
> else if (!memcmp(from, "maxcpus=", 8)) {
> extern unsigned int maxcpus;
>
> maxcpus = simple_strtoul(from + 8, NULL, 0);
> }
> ...
Ah, thanks.
I didn't see this extern declaration.
(and my test compiles were with SMP=n...)
> Dave
cu
Adrian
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