Re: [PATCH] smp.h: Use local_irq_{save,restore}() in !SMP version of on_each_cpu().

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:07 PM, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Suggested fix: Do what we already do in the SMP version of
> on_each_cpu(), and use local_irq_save/local_irq_restore.

I was going to apply this, but started looking a bit more.

Using "flags" as a variable name inside a macro like this is a
*really* bad idea.

Lookie here:

    [torvalds@pixel linux]$ git grep on_each_cpu.*flags
    arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf.c:        on_each_cpu(setup_pmc_cpu,
&flags, 1);
    arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf.c:        on_each_cpu(setup_pmc_cpu,
&flags, 1);

and ask yourself what happens when the "info" argument expands to
"&flags", and it all compiles perfectly fine, but the "&flags" takes
the address of the new _inner_ variable called "flags" from the macro
expansion. Not the one that the caller actually intends..

Oops.

Not a good idea.

So I would suggest trivially renaming "flags" as "__flags" or
something, or perhaps even just making it a real function and avoiding
the whole namespace issue.

And rather than doing that blindly by editing the patch at after -rc5,
I'm just going to ask you to re-send a tested patch. Ok?

                    Linus
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