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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: percpu tree build warning
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:46:02 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911270846.02717.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091125134058.GA9097@elte.hu>

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:10:58 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> While a percpu variable is defined and used in completely different 
> ways:
> 
>   DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, dr7);
> 
> and is used via:
> 
>   __get_cpu_var(dr7);  [[Fixed -- RR]]

The entire point of Tejun's per-cpu work is that &dr7 is now valid.  A per-cpu
pointer as if it were allocated by the dynamic per-cpu allocator.

Your arguments are fine, but out-of-date.

Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-25 10:42 linux-next: percpu tree build warning Stephen Rothwell
2009-11-25 10:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-25 11:14   ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-25 11:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-25 12:39       ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-25 12:31   ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-25 13:40     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-25 15:12       ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-26 22:16       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-11-27  5:41         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-27  5:57           ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-27  6:20             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-27  6:31               ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-27  6:32                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-28  9:51           ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-29  6:40             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-30  0:31               ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-25 13:24   ` [PATCH] x86: rename global percpu symbol dr7 to cpu_dr7 Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-12  6:45 linux-next: percpu tree build warning Stephen Rothwell
2009-11-12 15:16 ` Christoph Lameter

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