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From: andreabenelli77@gmail.com (Andrea Benelli)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:48:28 +0200
Subject: What is the point of this function?
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Hello, i was looking at the *linux/sched.h* (kernel version 4.6.2) source
code and i found this function at line *1174*:

static inline bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu)
{
        return true;
}

I'm not able to understand the utility of a function that just return a
true value.
i've noticed that there are a lot of functions like this (function that
just return a constant).

so...why?
thanks.
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