On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:32:50PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Paul, All, > > On 2013-09-07 11:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney spake thusly: > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 11:13:48AM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > [--SNIP--] > > > I'll see if I can come up with a meaningfull construct that fixes your > > > use-case. Don't hold your breath, though! ;-) > > > > If not, we need to add NR_CPUS to the architectures lacking them... > > Unfortunately, I was not able to come up with anything suitable. > > I think your proposal to always define NR_CPUS=1 for architectures > without SMP support is a good solution. > > After all, if !SMP because the architecture does not support it, I > believe it makes sense that NR_CPUS be defined to 1. > > Unless NR_CPUS carries with it a hidden meaning about SMP being > possible, that is, which would probably be wrong anyway, since we have > SMP for this. Right, if possible, the best would be to define CONFIG_NR_CPUS to a single central place, like arch/Kconfig: config NR_CPUS default 1 if !SMP It's a single int after all. Specific arch constraints can probably be overriden from the arch. > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. > > -- > .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. > | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | > | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | > | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | > | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | > '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
