Re: [this_cpu_xx V8 07/16] Module handling: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Christoph Lameter (cl@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> > On 12/23/2009 12:57 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> > >>> ===================================================================
> > >>> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c	2009-12-18 13:13:24.000000000 -0600
> > >>> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c	2009-12-18 14:15:57.000000000 -0600
> > >>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> > >>>  #include <linux/hardirq.h>
> > >>>  #include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
> > >>>  #include <linux/module.h>
> > >>> +#include <asm/local.h>
> > >>
> > >> This doesn't belong to this patch, right?  I stripped this part out,
> > >> added Cc: to Rusty and applied 1, 2, 7 and 8 to percpu branch.  I'll
> > >> post the updated patch here. Thanks.
> > >
> > > If you strip this part out then ringbuffer.c will no longer compile
> > > since it relies on the "#include <local.h>" that is removed by this patch
> > > from the module.h file.
> >
> > Oh... alright.  I'll add that comment and drop the offending chunk and
> > recommit.
> 
> So we need a separate patch to deal with remval of the #include
> <asm/local.h> from modules.h?
> 

I think this would make sense, yes. This would be a patch specific to
the ring-buffer code that would go through (or be acked by) Steven.

Mathieu


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