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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:52:42 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/include param.h src/sys/arm/include  param.h src/sys/i386/include param.h src/sys/ia64/include param.h  src/sys/powerpc/include param.h src/sys/sparc64/include param.h  src/sys/sun4v/include param.h
Message-ID:  <20080327072329.U34007@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803270503.m2R53Qr7053473@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200803270503.m2R53Qr7053473@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, John Birrell wrote:

> jb          2008-03-27 05:03:26 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/amd64/include    param.h
>    sys/arm/include      param.h
>    sys/i386/include     param.h
>    sys/ia64/include     param.h
>    sys/powerpc/include  param.h
>    sys/sparc64/include  param.h
>    sys/sun4v/include    param.h
>  Log:
>  When building a kernel module, define MAXCPU the same as SMP so
>  that modules work with and without SMP.

Hmm.  I think this probably is the right thing, but we'll need to be very 
careful to watch for people defining foo[MAXCPU] in globally visible data 
structures in the kernel in such a way that entries for the non-current CPU 
are referenced by any modules.  A casual glance suggests that, right now, this 
is not generally an issue, but something to watch out for, since we do use 
MAXCPU to size a number of kernel data structures.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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