On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:53:47PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello Tony, > > For Montecito PMU support, I need to determine, in a kernel module, whether > or not threads are enabled. The only reliable way of doing this is to > compute the bit-weight of cpu_sibling_map[]. This symbol is exported on > x86 systems, but not on IA-64 so far. This patch exports the symbol. Exporting global variables is a very bad thing, and we only do it if we can't avoid it at all. In this case it could be easily avoided by exporting a nr_siblings_per_cpu() helper. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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