Re: for_each_cpu() is buggy for UP kernel?

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's hacky, but maybe being explicitly hacky is good to "document" this gotcha.
good to "document" this gotcha.
And I really do agree that this special UP case is nasty nasty and much too subtle, and I hope that some day we won't care about UP at all, and maybe kill it, or maybe just make for_each_cpu() generate the extra code to have the actual same semantics as the SMP case.
the actual same semantics as the SMP case.
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