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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] x86: allocate cpumask during check irq vectors
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:27:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140126202749.GA10254@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f0b30ff-6adb-46f5-bad4-ed42956e2a39@email.android.com>


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> s/global/static/, with a big loud comment why it is okay.

It would be a global no matter which form we use, but for 
maintainability reasons I generally prefer a static put right before 
the function that uses it:

	static cpumask_t mask;

	static func(...)
	{
	}

That makes it really apparent that it's a global - statics are easily 
missed when hiding amongst local variables.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-26 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-25  0:59 [PATCH -v2] x86: allocate cpumask during check irq vectors Yinghai Lu
2014-01-25  8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-26 12:22   ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-01-26 13:32     ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-26 19:19       ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-01-26 20:21         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-26 20:23           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-26 20:27             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2014-01-26 20:29               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-26 21:46                 ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-01-27  7:14                 ` Ingo Molnar

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