Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotationsto net

[David Miller]

From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:20:26 +0900

> Add __percpu sparse annotations to net.
> 
> These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
> in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
> through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
> 
> The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit
> interesting.  DEFINE/DECLARE_SNMP_STAT() macros mark the target field
> as __percpu and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS() macro is updated accordingly.  All
> snmp_mib_*() users which used to cast the argument to (void **) are
> updated to cast it to (void __percpu **).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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