Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 1

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> > -	return raw_cpu_read(base->percpu_base);
> > +	return raw_cpu_read(*base->percpu_base);
>
> Isn't the pointer dereference supposed to be performed _outside_ the per
> CPU accessor?

It looks like percpu_base is a regular pointer to an offset. This is the
correct way to refer to get the offset and load the value that the offset
points to.

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