Re: [PATCH] highest_possible_processor_id() has to be a macro

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> So ugly...
> 
> But, it's the best fix for now.
> 
> Longer term we might want to make an asm/cpumask.h that can
> help allow the platforms to cleanly say "well, mask X is
> equivalent to Y, so only instantiate X and define Y to X"
> which is all that these two platforms are trying to accomplish.

The other thing you could is have an inline function called
highest_processor_id (or perhaps last_cpu) that calculates the
biggest CPU ID for any map and then define highest_possible_processor_id
as a macro that just calls the function with the right arguments.

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