Re: [PATCH] fix __percpu annotation in asm-generic

Dennis Zhou
2019-11-27T17:53:55Z

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 03:55:19PM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
>
> > So, fix the declaration of the 'pcp' variable to its correct type:
> > the plain (non-percpu) pointer corresponding to its address.
> > Same for raw_cpu_generic_xchg(), raw_cpu_generic_cmpxchg() &
> > raw_cpu_generic_cmpxchg_double().
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>
> Maybe a better fix is to come up with a typeof_strip_percu() or so
> macro for all the places where this needs to be done?

I like the idea of typeof_strip_percpu(). Luc do you mind spinning v2
with a macro for this instead?

Thanks,
Dennis