On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:19:07AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:18:50AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > "Remove hardcoding of hard_smp_processor_id on UP systems",
> > 2f4dfe206a2fc07099dfad77a8ea2f4b4ae2140f in Linus' tree, moved
> > the definition of hard_smp_processor_id linux/smp.h to asm/smp.h
> > for UP systems. This causes a regression on ARM as the definition
> > was not added to asm-arm/smp.h.
> >
> > Cc: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
>
> I took an alternative approach - since Integrator never had the complete
> SMP support merged, I ripped it out of that platform. Whether realview
> suffers from the same thing or not I'm not sure - uniprocessor realview
> is not something covered by the ARM default configuration files, and
> therefore kautobuild won't check that configuration.
I can take a look into this. Is there a tree other than Linus'
I should be working with?
> However, the things I find annoying about this is:
>
> 1. asm/smp.h was _never_ included in ARM UP builds prior to this change.
> 2. we have linux/smp.h and the general rule is that if asm/foo.h and
> linux/foo.h are present, linux/foo.h is included in preference to
> asm/foo.h
>
> Given the amount of janitors we now have looking at the kernel code,
> (2) is a big concern - it could mean a constant stream of patches
> trying to "fix" files including asm/smp.h.
>
> I would suggest that if there is a desire to include asm/smp.h on UP
> builds, the inclusion of it by linux/smp.h is made unconditional.
I was thinking that myself, though I'm kind of fearful of
what kind of (additional) breakage it might cause.
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