Re: [PATCH 02/10] init: move setup of nr_cpu_ids to as early as possible v2

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
>> Move the setting of nr_cpu_ids from sched_init() to 
>> setup_per_cpu_areas(), so that it's available as early as possible.
> 
> hm, why not a separate call before setup_per_cpu_areas(), so that we can 
> avoid spreading this from generic kernel into a bunch of architectures 
> that happen to have their own version of setup_per_cpu_areas():
> 
>>  7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> 	Ingo

I had this before but I then discovered that an arch would increase
(and possible decrease) it's number of possible cpus in setup_per_cpu_areas().
So I figured that setting nr_cpu_ids (and the cpumask_of_cpu map) should
be a side effect of setup_per_cpu_areas().

Thanks,
Mike

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