Re: [gcv v3 25/35] powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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(&x), y, sizeof(x));

Still not correct. I think it should be

        memcpy(x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x));

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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