Re: [PATCH 2/2] hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 09:50:57PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> This patch simply moves all per-cpu variables into the new single
> per-cpu "struct bp_cpuinfo".
> 
> To me this looks more logical and clean, but this can also simplify
> the further potential changes. In particular, I do not think this
> memory should be per-cpu, it is never used "locally". After this
> change it is trivial to turn it into, say, bootmem[nr_cpu_ids].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm ok with the patch because it's indeed more logical and clean to pack the info
to a single struct.

But I'm not sure why you think using per-cpu is a problem. It's not only
deemed for optimized local uses, it's also convenient for allocations and
de-allocation, or static definitions. I'm not sure why bootmem would make
more sense.

Other than this in the changelog, the patch is nice, thanks!

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
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