cpuid_t typedef? (was Re: Processor cores not properly detected/activated?)

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:09:05 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 29 May 2014 13:18, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >> anyway. Besides all of this - I'm thinking of just introducing:
> >>
> >> typedef uint32_t cpuid_t;
> >>
> >> .. then once we've converted all the users, we can make NOCPU
> >> something other than 255 (which is the other limiting factor here..)
> >>
> >> Any objections?
> >
> > This one is a bit harder as you'll have to do shims for kinfo_proc, but
> > I think this is fine.  You could also just use u_int, but a new foo_t
> > isn't that bad I guess.
> 
> I don't think I'd modify any userland-facing ABI/KBI's just yet. I'm
> just worried that 11.0-REL will come out before we have made a decent
> inroads into this and we _can't_ support > 254 CPUs.

Eh, that's one of the biggies to do actually.   Kind of pointless to
update td_oncpu/lastcpu and not fix kinfo_proc at the same time.  You'll
just have to add new int fields and populate the old ones with sane values
for CPUs < 255.

-- 
John Baldwin