Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Prevent dereferencing non-allocated per_cpu variables

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> The prefetch however might still need some work - we can indeed do
> prefetch() against a not-possible CPU's memory here.  And I do recall that
> 4-5 years ago we did have a CPU (one of mine, iirc) which would oops when
> prefetching from a bad address.  I forget what the conclusion was on that
> matter.
> 
> If we do want to fix the prefetch-from-outer-space then we should be using
> cpu_isset(cpu, *cpumask) here rather than cpu_possible().

Generally the prefetch things have turned out to be not that useful. How 
about dropping the prefetch? I kept it because it was there.

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