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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplify net/flow.c
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:55:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040124050843.320902C056@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:51:04 -0800." <20040122195104.31cc2496.akpm@osdl.org>

In message <20040122195104.31cc2496.akpm@osdl.org> you write:
> It doesn't link if CONFIG_SMP=n.  semaphore `cpucontrol', used in
> flow_cache_flush() is defined in kernel/cpu.c which is not included in
> uniprocessor builds.
> 
> Here's one possible fix.

....

>  	/* Don't want cpus going down or up during this, also protects
>  	 * against multiple callers. */
> -	down(&cpucontrol);
> +	down_cpucontrol();

OK.  Although I think I prefer to have down_cpucontrol() defined under
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, and revert to using a normal sem here as
well to cover the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n CONFIG_SMP=y case.  But I will
produce an additional patch with the hotplug cpu patches.

Thanks,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-24  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22  7:49 [PATCH] Simplify net/flow.c Rusty Russell
2004-01-22 18:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-23  3:51   ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-23  6:55     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-01-24  5:30       ` David S. Miller
2004-01-23  7:16     ` David S. Miller

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