[PATCH 2.6.26?] Raise the upper limit of NR_CPUS.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 15:33 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> As the pacas are statically initialised increasing NR_CPUS beyond 128,
> means that any additional pacas will be empty  ... which is bad.
> 
> This patch adds the required functionality to fill in any excess pacas
> at runtime.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>
> ---
> I know it's late, but can this be considered for 2.6.26?

NAK.

You must NEVER manipulate kernel globals from prom_init.c. The fact that
prom_init is linked with the kernel is an "accident" which may change.

Your scheme would break among others with kexec or non-OF bootloaders

Ben.