[PATCH 2/4] lib/cpumask: delete misleading comment

Yury Norov posted 4 patches 3 years, 7 months ago
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[PATCH 2/4] lib/cpumask: delete misleading comment
Posted by Yury Norov 3 years, 7 months ago
The comment says that HOTPLUG config option enables all cpus in
cpu_possible_mask up to NR_CPUs. This is wrong. Even if HOTPLUG is
enabled, the mask is populated on boot with respect to ACPI/DT records.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
---
 include/linux/cpumask.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
index bd047864c7ac..f70bf9ffa9d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ extern unsigned int nr_cpu_ids;
  *  cpu_online_mask is the dynamic subset of cpu_present_mask,
  *  indicating those CPUs available for scheduling.
  *
- *  If HOTPLUG is enabled, then cpu_possible_mask is forced to have
- *  all NR_CPUS bits set, otherwise it is just the set of CPUs that
- *  ACPI reports present at boot.
- *
  *  If HOTPLUG is enabled, then cpu_present_mask varies dynamically,
  *  depending on what ACPI reports as currently plugged in, otherwise
  *  cpu_present_mask is just a copy of cpu_possible_mask.
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