machdep.hlt_cpus not safe with ULE?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Sat Feb 19 14:24:52 UTC 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Jennejohn" <gljennjohn at googlemail.com>
> 
> Looking at the kernel source it appears that only sched_4bsd.c makes use
> of hlt_cpus_mask.

Given ULE is default do these need to be either removed totally or at least
conditionally based on the scheduler choice as currently they are quite
dangerous to a systems health?

    Regards
    Steve

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