Dave Jones wrote:
> > If you have CPU hotplug enabled, you can run SMP code!Sure, but if you boot with 1 CPU, spinlocks get nop'd to emulate UP, and on a 'installed a new cpu' hotplug event, they all come back.
The point that you don't nop if you have hotplug enabled (which is not the norm.)
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