Re: [PATCH 24/35] [PATCH 24/36] ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 14:14:03 EST


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:30:47PM -0500, Christoph Lameter 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.
>
> Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
> processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
> writing data or on the right side of an assignment.
...
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

(Please disregard the ones I posted for v1 of the patch series)

Applied to percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops. Please let me know if this
patch should be routed differently. Note that this patch was to be
applied to percpu/for-3.17 but delayed due to build issues caused by
cpumask_var_t.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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