From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx> Local apic entries are only 8 bits, but it seemed to not be caught with u8 return value result in the check cpu_index >= NR_CPUS becomming always false. drivers/acpi/processor_core.c: In function `acpi_processor_get_info': drivers/acpi/processor_core.c:483: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~acpi-signedness-fix-2 drivers/acpi/processor_core.c --- devel/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~acpi-signedness-fix-2 2006-03-28 14:03:06.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c 2006-03-28 14:03:06.000000000 -0800 @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_remove_fs(stru /* Use the acpiid in MADT to map cpus in case of SMP */ #ifndef CONFIG_SMP -#define convert_acpiid_to_cpu(acpi_id) (0xff) +#define convert_acpiid_to_cpu(acpi_id) (-1) #else #ifdef CONFIG_IA64 @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_remove_fs(stru #define ARCH_BAD_APICID (0xff) #endif -static u8 convert_acpiid_to_cpu(u8 acpi_id) +static int convert_acpiid_to_cpu(u8 acpi_id) { u16 apic_id; int i; @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struc acpi_status status = 0; union acpi_object object = { 0 }; struct acpi_buffer buffer = { sizeof(union acpi_object), &object }; - u8 cpu_index; + int cpu_index; static int cpu0_initialized; ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE("acpi_processor_get_info"); @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struc cpu_index = convert_acpiid_to_cpu(pr->acpi_id); /* Handle UP system running SMP kernel, with no LAPIC in MADT */ - if (!cpu0_initialized && (cpu_index == 0xff) && + if (!cpu0_initialized && (cpu_index == -1) && (num_online_cpus() == 1)) { cpu_index = 0; } @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struc * less than the max # of CPUs. They should be ignored _iff * they are physically not present. */ - if (cpu_index >= NR_CPUS) { + if (cpu_index == -1) { if (ACPI_FAILURE (acpi_processor_hotadd_init(pr->handle, &pr->id))) { ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO, _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html