From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:13:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function
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To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> +#ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH_SWITCH_STACK
>  +extern void prefetch_switch_stack(struct task_struct*);
>  +#else
>  +#define prefetch_switch_stack(task)	do { } while (0)
>  +#endif

It is better to use

static inline void prefetch_switch_stack(struct task_struct *t) { }

in the second case, rather than a macro.  It provides typechecking.