Re: [PATCH 0/5] kernel/cpu.c: eliminate some indirection

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On Sun, Sep 27 2015, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But to be clear, it has outlived its usefulness, but it was not useless.
>
> In particular, there used to be a debug config where 'struct cpumask'
> wasn't defined, so we could catch people declaring 'struct cpumask' on
> the stack (or passing by value).
>
> There was a plan to remove CONFIG_NR_CPUS (ie. having no compile-time
> cpu limit), but it seemed overkill and was abandoned.  But avoiding
> 'struct cpumask' (not struct cpumask *) in the core wherever possible
> was a step towards it.
>
> Hope that clarifies,

It does, thanks! Should some of that be edited into one of the
changelogs?

Rasmus
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