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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] cpumask: Purify cpumask_next()
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 10:32:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190525083207.GA102394@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190525082203.6531-3-namit@vmware.com>


* Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:

> cpumask_next() has no side-effects. Mark it as pure.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/cpumask.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
> index 147bdec42215..20df46705f9c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static inline unsigned int cpumask_last(const struct cpumask *srcp)
>  	return find_last_bit(cpumask_bits(srcp), nr_cpumask_bits);
>  }
>  
> -unsigned int cpumask_next(int n, const struct cpumask *srcp);
> +unsigned int __pure cpumask_next(int n, const struct cpumask *srcp);

I suppose this makes a code generation difference somewhere, right?

I'm wondering, couldn't it also be marked a const function? That's 
supposedly an even better category.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-25  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-25  8:21 [RFC PATCH 0/6] x86/mm: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] smp: Remove smp_call_function() and on_each_cpu() return values Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] cpumask: Purify cpumask_next() Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:32   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2019-05-27  8:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 17:34     ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] smp: Run functions concurrently in smp_call_function_many() Nadav Amit
2019-05-27  9:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 17:39     ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] x86/mm/tlb: Refactor common code into flush_tlb_on_cpus() Nadav Amit
2019-05-27  9:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 18:59     ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-27 19:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-25  8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86/mm/tlb: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:38   ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:54   ` Juergen Gross
2019-05-27  9:47     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 10:21       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-27 12:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 12:45           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-27 17:49       ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-25  8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] x86/mm/tlb: Optimize local TLB flushes Nadav Amit
2019-05-27  8:28 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] x86/mm: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27  9:59 ` Peter Zijlstra

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