Re: [PATCH 6/6] percpu: Add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 16 2013 - 11:36:27 EST


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:09:13PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > So I didn't understand what was wrong with:
> >
> > #define __this_cpu_read(pcp) \
> > (__this_cpu_preempt_check("read"), raw_this_cpu_read(pcp))
> >
> > And idem for all others. This is 1) shorter to write; and 2) makes it
> > blindingly obvious that the implementations are actually the same.
>
> Nothing wrong with that. It just increases the scope of this patch to
> require modifications to arch code and I already have trouble enough
> following through on all the issues that were raised so far.
>

But non of your raw ops touch arch code... /me confused.
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