[PATCH 3/6] M68K: cpuinfo: Fix a warning for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Tue Jul 12 02:01:02 PDT 2022


Hi Huacai,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:53 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 4:33 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 9:53 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai at loongson.cn> wrote:
> > > When CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is selected,
> >
> > DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS depends on SMP, which is not supported on m68k,
> > and thus cannot be enabled.
> This patch is derived from MIPS and LoongArch, I search all
> architectures and change those that look the same as MIPS and
> LoongArch.
> And the warning message below is also a copy-paste from LoongArch, sorry.
>
> Since M68K doesn't support SMP, then this patch seems to make no
> difference, but does it make sense to keep consistency across all
> architectures?

Yes, having consistency is good.  But that should be mentioned in the
patch description, instead of a scary warning CCed to stable ;-)

BTW, you probably want to update the other copy of c_start() in
arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c, too.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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