Re: [PATCH 1/2] params: Add a per cpu module param type

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Aug 19 2014 - 14:12:05 EST


Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is mainly useful for simple statistic counters.
> Essentially read-only, writing only clears.

Nice...

> +#define param_check_percpu_uint(name, p) param_check_uint

This is wrong; will it even compile? It should also do the __percpu
annotation so hopefully sparse will catch any misuses, eg:

#define param_check_percpu_uint(name, p) \
__param_check(name, p, __percpu unsigned int)

The rest looks good, but I'll need a user :)

Cheers,
Rusty.
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