Re: [PATCH 3/7] ppc64: EEH Add event/internal state statistics

[linas <linas@austin.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:14:58PM +1000, Paul Mackerras was heard to remark:
> Linas writes:
> 
> > 03-eeh-statistics.patch
> 
> > +	if (!dn) {
> > +		__get_cpu_var(no_dn)++;
> 
> We have to make sure we are not preemptible when we use
> __get_cpu_var, since it uses smp_processor_id().  It's not clear to me
> that we have ensured that in every case where we use __get_cpu_var.
> Are you sure that we hold a spinlock, or are at interrupt level, or
> have explicitly disabled preemption at every point where we use
> __get_cpu_var?

Tese used to be plain-old global variables, but someone submitted 
a patch that to turn them into the __get_cpu_var() form. I don't 
know why; there's no real performance reason, since these are almost 
never incremented, except a bit during boot.  What if we just change 
them back to global vars?

I've also day-dreamed about moving these stats to somewhere in
in the /sys directory. Any suggestions there?

--linas