Re: [guv v2 20/31] powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is
> address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for
> the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset.
>
> Others usage cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area.

use cases

> __get_cpu_var() always only does a address determination. However, store and retrieve operations

an address

> This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either and explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr()

an explicit

> 4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct
>
>         DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
>         struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);
>
>    Converts to
>
>         memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&y), x, sizeof(x));

Let's hope the actual code copies in the other direction ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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