Re: [patch 5/8] x86: use this_cpu_xxx to replace percpu_xxx funcs

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:46:01 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Will percpu_write() be removed altogether? If so then the 
> changelog should say *that*, and explain that on x86 this is a 
> simple renaming of the API, not a long explanation about 
> scenarios that don't actually matter.
> 
> If percpu_write() is not being removed then I don't see how this 
> patch is an improvement: it's supposed to result in the same 
> instructions being emitted, and __this_cpu_write() et al are 
> distinctly longer to write ...
> 
> So what's the plan here?

All percpu_xxx() functions get removed.

That was explained in the [patch 0/n] changelog (available on lkml ;))
but a) I chose to feed the prereq patches through maintainers and b) I
didn't edit all the changelogs.  I should have.

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