Rene Herman wrote:
> Hi list.
>
> I just noticed this in the 2.6.17-rc3 dmesg:
>
> ===
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 0k freed
> ACPI: setting ELCR to 0400 (from 1608)
> ===
>
> Should I be seeing this "SMP alternatives" thing on a !CONFIG_SMP
> kernel? It does say 0k, but something is apparently being done at
> runtime still. Why?
The UP kernel has empty alternatives tables (as you've noticed), thus
the code doesn't do anything. Nevertheless it probably makes sense to
add a few #ifdef CONFIG_SMP lines to avoid confusing people and safe a
few bytes ...
cheers,
Gerd
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