Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: kernel: remove useless code which related with 'max_cpus'
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2013-07-25 08:07:04
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2013-07-25 08:07:04
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:59 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
For my opinion: one fix may like below (assume have removed max_cpus) which is more reasonable for code readers.
So instead of just failing to bring the secondary CPUs, but potentially still having a working system, you crash during boot.... potentially before a console is even visible. And this is good how ? Ben.