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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:37:32 +0000
From:      John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@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:  <20080327193732.GA30621@what-creek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080327072329.U34007@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200803270503.m2R53Qr7053473@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080327072329.U34007@fledge.watson.org>

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:52:42AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 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.

I should have added to the commit message:

Suggested by: jhb

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John Birrell



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